Question

Does evolution lead to perfect organisms? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Evolution is a constantly occuring slow process which helps in building organisms which are adapted to their environments so as to sustain better than those who are not. However, in order to call an organism perfect, it would be unwise to not take into consideration that living organisms tend to show inter- as well as intra- sepcific defferences and hence contribute to the imperfections in the gene pool. For example, the persons living at high altitudes are genetically and evolutionarily adapted to these conditions. However, every population contains a few individuals which simply fail to acclimatize to the hypoxic condition at high ambient altitudes, hence experience pathologies. These un-acclimatized individuals too add up to the total gene pool of the population thus deviating it from being ferfect in nature.

Thus, this explains that despite enormous amount of evolution, living organisms are never perfect in nature.