User:The Woodburninator/The Natural Selection of Worms

Charles Darwin's 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" was a seminal volume in scientific and human history, forming the basis of humanity's acceptance of evolution as a means to define the vast number of different species that cohabit the Earth. With Darwin's writing came the theory of Natural Selection which, to put simply, argues that those beings within a species that receive the most favorable genes and traits will be the most successful, and therefore will be the ones to pass down their genes. For instance, when a herd of roving Rhinoceros would eat all of the leaves on the lower branches of the trees within the grazing area of a group of giraffes, it was the giraffes with the longest necks that were able to reach the higher branches and actually eat, leaving the other giraffes without food, and therefore dead. The surviving long-necked giraffes would then bone, passing their superior long-necked genes down to their offspring. The short-necked giraffes- currently dead at this time- would be unable to bone and pass on their far less superior short-necked genes down to their non-existent children.

The Natural Selection of Worms, on the other hand, cannot be so easily explained, and has baffled scientists since the day it was first hypothesized.