How Can We Exist If We Only Evolved One Step At A Time?

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The discussion centers on the complexity of the human body and the challenges of understanding how various systems—nervous, digestive, excretory, circulatory, skeletal, muscular, and immune—could have evolved through individual mutations. The key point raised is the question of how an organism could survive if these critical systems developed separately over time, suggesting that simultaneous evolution of multiple systems may be necessary for survival. The conversation encourages further exploration of evolutionary biology to grasp how these intricate systems could have co-evolved to support life.
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While studying the human body I ran into something that didn't make sense. So the human body is made up of several unique components necessary for survival such as the nervous, digestive, excretory, circulatory, skeletal, muscular and an immune systems. Each of these has several different characteristics, processes and components that allow for proper function. If all of these processes evolved one mutation at a time then how would the human survive without all of the other functions/mutations not all evolving at the same time so the organism may survive?
 
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JlegoJ said:
While studying the human body I ran into something that didn't make sense. So the human body is made up of several unique components necessary for survival such as the nervous, digestive, excretory, circulatory, skeletal, muscular and an immune systems. Each of these has several different characteristics, processes and components that allow for proper function. If all of these processes evolved one mutation at a time then how would the human survive without all of the other functions/mutations not all evolving at the same time so the organism may survive?
I suggest you take some time to learn to learn about evolution.

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