This three-page undergraduate paper is in the form of a research project that studies the origins of life. The author notes that as biological knowledge developed, scientists such as George Buffon and Charles Darwin began to study the origins of life, and over the years formulated theories of evolution that offered the best explanation as to how species originated and evolved on earth. Darwin’s theory of evolution explains better than any other theory how species such as human beings, horses, ants, and others originated and how they adapted to the environment around them.