Evolutionary biology

I have always been a fan of Charles Darwin and his ideas of natural selection and the thoughts of evolution. This short film demonstrates his discoveries and how it influences today’s natural world in a remarkable and evolving way. Through the video, it easily explains about how life is thought-provoking and the signs of the changing world are around us (if its deep underground or in a large amazon forest). It amazes me through this film about how he had developed the idea about the Tree of…

In this universe there have been many theories on how our world came to what it is today, but there was one man who had it figured out. Charles Darwin was a naturalist and geologist, he changed the world with his theory of natural selection and how everything evolves. When Darwin finished his voyage he put his theory out there to the world, taking the risk of knowing the aftermath might not be so good. The theory of evolution by natural selection was created by Charles Darwin in 1836. Darwin…

probably useful to an ancestor. Types of Evolution are factors such as environment and predation pressures where organisms can have different effects on the ways in which the organism needs evolve in order to survive. Divergent Evolution is the evolutionary pattern in which two species gradually become increasingly different. Adaptive Radiation is a type of evolution where an animal or plant group into a wide variety of types adapted to specialized modes of life. Convergent Evolution takes…

Biogeography It shows how the past and present geographical distribution of organisms played a role in their evolution.Also, how species are distributed in accordance to the genetic relationships they share with other organisms. Marsupials and Placental Mammals Marsupials animals are almost exclusively found in Australia, while Placental mammals are very rare there. There are fossils of marsupials in North America, and South America. 30 million years ago South America and Australia…

Luis Correa The Reluctant Mr. Darwin David Quammen 251 Pages The Main Characters in this book are Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born in England on the 12th of February 1809, he died on the 19th of April 1882. was a man everyone knew. Maybe you knew him from his Darwinism or Darwinian. He was a man that believed in the theory of evolution. He believes that humans (Us) became ourselves by slowly evolving from animals. He lived his entire life trying to show evidence and prove that evolution…

I think that animals like Koko who has the capacity to communicate to humans are additional proofs that chimpanzees and humans may have come from the same ancestors as Charles Darwin postulated. As what I'd observed in the video, Koko learned how to communicate using sign language and he expressed his opinion about taking care of the Earth. In short, Koko is a wise man and his ability to think is only a human can does. Maybe, not as wide understanding as the modern man but still, he can think…

evolved the way they did (p. 411). Evolutionary questions typically fall into the why group as they address the ultimate levels of inference. Conversely, questions of ontology seek developmental answers for observable changes. Psychology is primarily concerned with the individual level of analysis, but in the case evolutionary psychology the theoretical and practical lines are much more blurred. This paper will provide a roadmap for the main positions held by evolutionary psychology while…

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…

“It is no the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” This quote was once said by the father of evolution himself, Charles Darwin who spent his life’s work on learning all he can about evolution. In the world we live in all organisms change, and were not the same thousands of years ago as they are today. There are two main theories to this process; scientific theory and religious theory. Many people go…

humble Darwin was. He always had an open mind knowing that we know so little on the origin of species and life. Therefore, we shouldn’t align our views strictly to one belief. In 1871, Darwin published The Descent of Man in which Darwin takes his evolutionary theories a step further and imposes them on man. Basically, investigating if man is comes from a “pre-existing form” which he confirms with compelling evidence. He also acknowledges that natural selection does not apply to the societies…