They have worked out how long it would take animals and humans to evolve using Darwin’s theory and the numbers don’t add up. There is not enough time for us to have evolved by simple natural selection or rare genetic mutations. This is where epigenetics may offer us a fascinating alternative theory of evolution that was discredited many years ago. We know from epigenetic studies that changes to genes, in response to the environment (let’s call them ‘epi-mutations’), occur 100,000 times more frequently than the simple, old-fashioned genetic mutations of Darwin.
