We have received so many amazing questions through our Dear Science campaign, including this one from Malarhy, age 6. Do animals evolve anymore? Evolution is something we have all learned about it science class as a process that occurs over multiple generations of a species. Is this something that stills happens, do animals still evolve today? Keep watching to learn one example of evolution that happened probably more recently that you would expect.
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Melissa Garafola is the Genetics Educator at the Connecticut Science Center. She develops as well as delivers Genomics programming to a wide variety of audiences. Melissa has a BA in Biology from Western Connecticut State University and a MS in Education from the University of Bridgeport. Melissa is also certified in Connecticut to teach Secondary Biology. She transitioned from the research lab, to formal education, ultimately finding her way to her true passion of informal science education.
