Evolution

revolutionary he was during the 19th century. With no comprehension of advanced genetics, Darwin figured out how to concoct the thought of acquired characteristics and the transformation of these attributes after some time. Charles Darwin theory of evolution was one of the most significant topics to change and impact the world of science, unfortunately, it didn’t come without ramifications. In 1831, Charles Darwin set sails for a five year voyage, which he would spend all of this time studying…

The Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History is a work of art that thoroughly explains the story of life through evolution. The exhibit begins by informing us about organic compounds coming to be on earth and how all living organisms require organic compounds. It moves on to explain single cell organisms developing from organic compounds and then becoming self-sufficient using energy from the sun. These single-cell organisms grew into more complex beings with genetic…

Earth’s biodiversity is been around for eons, one of the key factors why it have existed that long, is because of evolution and extinction. It is the nature’s way to continually adapt to the fast changing environment, though extinction is the “end of the line” of all living species; it is the key to the survival of the future generation species. But with humans around premature extinction will be a problem due to our selfishness and loss of respect to our environment. With humans also known as…

creation versus evolution struggle plays a large part. Groups to prevent people being cruel to animals have been around since the 1800s, beginning with work animals. Then in 1975, Peter Singer published Animal Liberation, a book that fanned the flames of the animal rights Movement and turned it into a roaring wildfire. It is important to understand why people get involved in animal rights and why they do not. One of the main components of animal rights is evolution. If someone believes…

population that further supported Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. The Galapagos Islands have about 13 species of finches that differ in size and in diverse habitats and may have originated from the same finch ancestor that arrived from the mainland about two million years ago. The three factors for evolutionary process, variability, selection by differential fitness, and heritability, are key to tracking the “micro-evolution” of the Galapagos finches and to further…

understand the history of evolutionary thought. Today, the evolutionary theory combines the “original” Modern Synthesis with an understanding of DNA along with cellular chemistry. The following three subjects are very critical to be able to understand evolution: natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and DNA. The modern evolutionary synthesis explains how the discoveries of Gregor Mendel go hand in hand with that of Charles Darwin. The discovery of evolutionary principles first took place in…

The argument started in 1859 when Charles Darwin published a book, named The Origin of Species. This book gave birth to the idea of Evolution. Evolution is defined by Webster as “a theory that the difference between modern plants and animals are because of changes that happened by a natural process over a very long time” (“Evolution”). Before Darwin had published his book most people believed in Creationism. Webster Dictionary defines Creationism as “the belief that God created all things out of…

With natural selection its major driving mechanism, evolution is the change over time in the makeup of genetics of a population. Supported by evidence from many scientific methods, Charles Darwin, in On the Origin of Species, asserts that inheritable variations occur in individuals in a population. In the process known as natural selection, due to competition for limited resources, individuals with more favorable characteristics or phenotypes are more likely to survive and better reproduce,…

The article, “Does the Ribosome Challenge our Understanding of the RNA World?,” by Anthony Poole was published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution. RNA world hypothesis is a model framework explaining the origin of life on earth like genetically translated proteins and deoxynucleic acid from the point of view of ribonucleic acid based hypothetical systems. It suggests that ribonucleic acid existed before the deoxynucleic acid molecule. Chemical and Darwin’s evolutionary theories attempt to…

Creationism and Intelligent Design revolves around the idea that an intelligent being, often times God, designed a species and assists in the process of evolution. This belief…