Original sentence: In biology, evolution is the process by which populations of organisms acquire and pass on novel traits from generation to generation, affecting the overall makeup of the population and even leading to the emergence of new species
Edited sentence: About 10% to 15% of Americans, however, fully accept the science of biological evolution.Creationists reject the theory outright (45% of Americans), with another 37% believing that life developed from earlier forms, but that God guided this process (see the 2001 Gallup poll on creationism and evolution).Evolution is the scientific theory by which biology explains how populations of organisms acquire and pass on novel traits from generation to generation, affecting the overall makeup of the population and even leading to the emergence of new species