For example, the species on a single continent are more likely to be similar to one another, even if they live in vastly different environmental conditions, than species from two different continents. Darwin drew heavily upon his experience on the B Continue Reading...
Evolution- Your Inner FishSummaryThe origin of life is an issue that has attracted debates for decades and has been the subject of arguments in different fields. Evolutionism and creationism have made an effort to answer this question by providing di Continue Reading...
Although this theory totally impacted the world, Darwin's second book the Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) began a major debate, especially between religion and science. As he stated in the conclusion of his book, "The main co Continue Reading...
Intelligent Design Man has always asked questions about how the world began. All cultures in the ancient world had origin myths. People looked to higher powers, or deities, or life forces, to explain what they could not understand. Researchers do no Continue Reading...
TED Talks Ideas worth Spreading Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color (TED2009, 2009) Nina Joblonski opens by commenting on Darwin's pigmentation and his upbringing. She further speaks of his voyage on the Beagle and his interest in the Continue Reading...
East Asia, 1800-1912 Even with the fact that it would be absurd to claim that Charles Darwin is responsible for the spread of Imperialism, it would only be safe to say that he played an important role in making particular influential bodies in feel Continue Reading...
In 2005, a Federal Judge in Georgia ruled that any sticker or notice violated the separation of Church and state, "Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution educt Continue Reading...
Although the Intelligent Design theory presents interesting objections, the idea that someone or some thing is absolutely necessary for every progressive development within a species fails to be prevalent through consistent testing of such debates. Continue Reading...
The most arrangement of these hominids is as shown in the table above (Rantala, 2007, p.17). Conclusion Humans have undergone a series of evolution from the most primitive hominids to the modern man. The development in the structure of the hominid Continue Reading...
Macroevolutionary Transition of Cetaceans Back to the Sea Today, one of the best known examples of macroevolution is that which can be speculated upon and observed in relation to marine mammals. Wales, porpoises and dolphins, members of the Catacean Continue Reading...
Heritable Variation in a Population Variation within the realm of natural selection is the cornerstone of a healthy population with the ability to adapt to a given environment. Indeed, the reality is that natural selection and evolution are sciences Continue Reading...
Extinction Punctuated Equilibrium Evolutionists for generations after Darwin imagined a slow and steady process of adaptation, in which daily culling and breeding success very gradually adapted a population from one form into another. Such a proces Continue Reading...
New Theory -- the Black Queen Hypothesis In modern science, evolution is one of the basic templates to help understand the biology and ecology of an organism. The theory was put forth in the late 19th century by Charles Darwin and others. It describ Continue Reading...
Nature vs. NurtureIntroductionFor some time now there has been an ongoing debate in the psychology field on whether Nature or Nurture plays a bigger role in the shaping of ones life, and although researchers have had many debates, the verdict is stil Continue Reading...
Evidence, because it is the only way scientists can look into the distant biological past and so come up with ling-term explanations for macroevolution, and consternation because its incompleteness leaves it open to a diversity of equally plausible Continue Reading...
The media present through radios talked extensively about the trial while print media also gave the event a lot of coverage. In fact media people and many others thronged Dayton to witness the famous trial first hand. The trial was on for the educa Continue Reading...
Transitional Form Archaeopteryx won't fly" Using the information from the article, "As a Transitional Form Archaeopteryx Won't Fly," by Duane Gish, I want you to critically evaluate Dr. Gish's argument. The article by Duane T. Gish, "As a Transiti Continue Reading...
Despite this factor, while working in the remote Amazon region, Wallace wrote his first major scientific publication in 1855, which became known as the Sarawak Law (Alfred Russel Wallace: Essential Background Information). This work was in effect t Continue Reading...
One of the most difficult challenges in applying evolutionary theory to the study of human behavior is determining the time frame in which to study human behavior as a form of adaptation. Evolution is a process that takes place over hundreds of tho Continue Reading...
Research can be added to the paradigms through discovery, without an actual paradigm shift, or the paradigm can be completely replaced through crisis. Scientific revolutions are sometimes so great that it can be said that with the advent of a parad Continue Reading...
Probability -- Subjective, relative frequency, and probabilistic propensity According to the academic definition of probability, the concept of probability involves a choice of some class of events (or statements) and an assignment of some meaning t Continue Reading...
Maybe there is a reason for these great apes to fling things at us in the zoo through the bars of the cage. There but for the grace of Darwin go I. As the A's, C's, G's and T's switch on an off, it's fascinating to think about the minor and major c Continue Reading...
Secondly, the relations that were created at the level of the social groups and of the human establishments gave rise to a surplus of products and inevitably of wealth. This was a natural consequence of the fact that the specialization of labor det Continue Reading...
Natural selection is the very efficient and predictable means of evolution by which a species adapts to its environment, that results in evolutionary change as individuals with particular characteristics have a greater survival or reproductive rate t Continue Reading...
When evolution occures, it is localized in rare and rapid events that are proven by the fossil record, as well as a thorough study of natural history (Gould and Eldredge, 1972). There are, however, gaps in the fossil record that remain controversia Continue Reading...
10)?" Indicating that there is no intellectual discourse on the subject, and, because they have already indicated that they perceive creationists as backward, asocial, and people essentially not capable of intellectual discourse on the subject; this Continue Reading...
The conservative view -- that of teaching intelligent design, or an alternative to Darwinism, is antithetical to science. In American public schools, religion may be taught about, but not taught. This means, religion may be presented as an historic Continue Reading...
He was willing to risk his livelihood, career, and reputation in the community in the name of science. As a biology teacher he knew that he was ultimately doing the right thing. I find this to be an admirable act and shows a strong belief in the Ame Continue Reading...
People accepted science, and so they also accepted the idea that humans were not unique, but were descendents of animals, and products of the natural world. Thus, some people felt the theories of evolution actually eliminated meaning and purpose fro Continue Reading...
Natural Selection First described in full by Charles Darwin, natural selection refers to the process by which organisms evolve by adapting to their environments. Natural selection does not occur instantly in response to an environmental change, howe Continue Reading...
According to Economic Darwinism principle, people will prefer to replace the alternative with the lowest potential (in terms of return, profit, solvability, etc.) with another random solution, which may it could turn out to be more successful than t Continue Reading...
While these are some of the more famous elements of rhetorical theory, they do not require extensive discussion here for two reasons. Firstly, they are fairly well-known. Secondly, and more importantly, they actually do not provide much insight into Continue Reading...
While this is a future that is heralded by some as the next logical step in our own evolution -- why let it occur haphazardly and slowly if it can be accomplished through careful planning and design? -- others see this stance as full of dangerous hu Continue Reading...
The purpose of this set of questions is to see whether they would engage in similar action even if they know that the other individual will not reciprocate given the reverse of their circumstances. All individuals will answer blindly, and we will an Continue Reading...
He purported the theory that strength is the only acceptable or even desired quality in a human being and weakness in any form was a great failing, good will survive, and bad will fail. Ultimately, goodness will be replaced by strength; humility wil Continue Reading...
Karl Marx An Evolutionist & a Revolutionist Karl Marx's work in the field of social sciences cannot be ignored. The scientific importance of Marx's work is based on him following the theory of evolution, which was initially concerned with the e Continue Reading...
Such an ascription "both distorts the substance of his thought and grossly exaggerates his actual influence on the politics of his country." He exerted "little influence" on American politics, Trask continues, though Sumner "praised modern capitali Continue Reading...
" (Glass, 2013, p. 44) In an interview with Bruce Glass, Peter Enns (2013) reports that Glass stated the following of his work "Since I am agnostic I have no personal stake in Christianity's concordance with the findings of science. I have no reason Continue Reading...
" (Dafler, 2005) Dafler relates that for more than thirty years children who were 'half-caste' "were forcibly removed from their families, often grabbed straight from their mother's arms, and transported directly to government and church missions." ( Continue Reading...
Carbon cycles through the ecosystem between the atmosphere, organisms (such as producers, herbivores, and carnivores) and decomposers. This natural cycle maintains a somewhat constant level of carbon in the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels rel Continue Reading...
