Given how the process of evolution appears to occur, how might concepts presented in this unit be used to predict how any given organism might evolve in the future? how might this knowledge lead to human intervention, positive or negative, in that organism’s natural evolutionary process?

An organism will evolve by natural selection, or the ability to adapt to an environment in the best possible way. For example, if carbon pollution continues to occur on a mass scale, the lungs of many land animals may evolve to filter out carbon from the air they breathe in. With this knowledge, humans may continue to be negligent about the environment. Factories may raise the amount of CO2 they release into the atmosphere at a rate in which evolution of the animals' lungs may not catch up to. This could inevitably lead to the mass extinction of hordes of animals.

The answer is option a.