Chapter 706

"Evolution?" Irina Smirnova and everyone else, including Balázs Locke Hoffmannde, had to think over the word before remembering what it meant.

In the Wizarding World, concepts like evolution were extremely obscure.

After all, this was a society where even a relatively accurate and comprehensive encyclopedia of magical creatures had only released its first edition a few decades ago. Expecting them to have a profound understanding of evolution was simply unrealistic.

"Evolution, also known as biological evolution, refers in biology to changes in the hereditary... hmm, hereditary bloodlines and externally expressed phenotypes within a population across generations." Tierra smoothly recited the definition of evolution, then tried to explain it in plain terms. "Applied to humans, it is the difference between wizards and Muggles."

"During reproduction, when we produce the next generation, our bloodline factors are likewise copied and passed on to our offspring—to our children. That is why the next generation will be more or less similar to the previous one," Tierra explained. "But at the same time, the process by which these bloodline factors are passed down is not always stable. There is always a certain probability that differences will arise between the next generation and ours. Those differences create variations in how individuals appear. The probability of such differences occurring is constant and entirely random."

"That is why wizards can be born to Muggles, and likewise, Squibs can be born to wizards," Tierra said. "Wizards and Muggles are fundamentally one and the same. They are merely different external expressions of hereditary bloodlines within a population called humanity."

"But clearly," Tierra said, "if you placed a strong adult human male and even the most ordinary sixteen- or seventeen-year-old student from our magical school in the wilderness without any human tools, who do you think would have a greater chance of