Study मन & प्राण before Genomes. And you will have upper hand of defending your roots scientifically. It is game of mind and prana that helps species to co-evolve.
When you have strong foundation in sastric understanding of Mana & Prana, it becomes easy to understand genomics and possibility of non-darwinian way of evolution.
The darwinian paradigm had its origin in the free market theories and concepts of Malthus and Spencer. Then, nature was explained on the basis of market theories moving away from an accurate explanation of natural phenomena.
Even many educated and dharmic Indians fall for it. And that is irony. It is necessary to acknowledge the limitations of the dominant dogma.
It is sheer 19th century dogma to consider Ape as ancestor of man. Unfortunately, I see many learned persons believe in it too! Having some exposure to dharma sastra, helped me realize it and then I found research conclusions about them.
Our (=modern science) current genomic knowledge, microbiology learning and epigentics contradict the tree of life theory, as established by Darwin. Recent analyses have produced bushes rather than resolved trees. It is now clear that every living organism has a variety of ancestors, while exchanges between species are intense, and the creation of new genes is frequent and permanent in all living organisms.
Here is one interesting paper to read and revisit concept of evolution.
Rhizome of life, catastrophes, sequence exchanges, gene creations, and giant viruses: how microbial genomics challenges Darwin.
Darwin’s theory about the evolution of species has been the object of considerable dispute. In this review, we have described seven key principles in Darwin’s book The Origin of Species and tried to present how genomics challenge each of these concepts and improve our knowledge about evolution. Darwin believed that species evolution consists on a positive directional selection ensuring the “survival of the fittest.” The most developed state of the species is characterized by increasing complexity. Darwin proposed the theory of “descent with modification” according to which all species evolve from a single common ancestor through a gradual process of small modification of their vertical inheritance. Finally, the process of evolution can be depicted in the form of a tree. However, microbial genomics showed that evolution is better described as the “biological changes over time.” The mode of change is not unidirectional and does not necessarily favors advantageous mutations to increase fitness it is rather subject to random selection as a result of catastrophic stochastic processes. Complexity is not necessarily the completion of development: several complex organisms have gone extinct and many microbes including bacteria with intracellular lifestyle have streamlined highly effective genomes. Genomes evolve through large events of gene deletions, duplications, insertions, and genomes rearrangements rather than a gradual adaptative process. Genomes are dynamic and chimeric entities with gene repertoires that result from vertical and horizontal acquisitions as well as de novo gene creation. The chimeric character of microbial genomes excludes the possibility of finding a single common ancestor for all the genes recorded currently. Genomes are collections of genes with different evolutionary histories that cannot be represented by a single tree of life (TOL). A forest, a network or a rhizome of life may be more accurate to represent evolutionary relationships among species.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3f16/c31b547390e6eaeb90688e9e2bf7fdb71716.pdf?fbclid=IwAR27kEAAJa9SIxxPsSV5sQO4tA9Dr4GVpbuHpKSyQpNP_1lK29OB9WL4GZo
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.uchicago.edu%2F~rjr6%2Farticles%2FSpencer-London.doc&fbclid=IwAR2X5qk1etjC2ks_oOmUp9YAhXGa2DiAd9SCSv1x8FkyG_GxLVz_pv1bVVM
