Group selection

We dared not turn back as we scrambled into the labyrinth of the evergreen forest. Christopher, Eliza, Francis, Gracelle, Hassan, Oliver, and I had all met that morning in a deteriorating abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Paris, France. There, we were informed of the valuable information implanted into our brains at birth by a mysterious, dismembered secret organization called NanoTech. Hence the reason why these military experienced robots keep trailing us wherever we go. Before leaving…

Last summer I partnered with another educator from my school to craft a multisession mini course for Math for America. The course met over a three month period and focussed on teaching educators from the Metro New York area about the symmetries of a sphere using an ancient japanese art form called Temari. I used our organization’s shared digital message board called the small world network to post and share an overview of our course in the spring course catalog and invited 15-20 teachers to sign…

the project, I was fully involved. One of my biggest contributions was keeping records and information from group meetings organized. I took minutes of each group meeting and wrote down every decision that was decided upon the group. With that information, I would later put it into an organized chart or list that made the information more accessible and understandable for the rest of the group. For example, after we decided which characters were being cut from the script and which characters…

Whitney Noonan 3/17/2016 Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was his way of explaining adaptation and speciation. This theory gave a reason as to why species “change” over time and explained the process. This was a huge discovery for Darwin because now we know that species are not fixed and are changing. Ethology, the study of animals in their natural environments, also played a role in the development of Darwin’s theory. Konrad Lorenz’s geese imprinting experiment…

Natural selection is what makes organisms different and what makes them able to adapt to their environment. Natural selection occurs during natural sexual reproduction. If your child is born with brown hair rather than blonde hair, they have no less of a chance to be successful than someone with blonde hair. According…

Another difference between actual natural selection and what Hitler explains is that natural selection happens naturally between two different species. But in the events where humans used natural selection it was intentional. For example the Native American population of North America that went from 112 million in 1492 to 10 million by the end of the 19th century. Some may say that the native American genocide was a form of natural selection because of the part disease played in the genocide…

that occurs by random chance rather than natural selection. In genetic drift, a population experiences a change in the frequency of a given allele, prompted by random luck rather than a need for adaptation. This differs from natural selection, in which allelic frequency is altered based on the fittest genes surviving to reproduce and the weaker genes dying off. Genetic drift tends to be a phenomenon amongst smaller populations, while natural selection holds sway in larger populations. Life (168)…

view from the perspective of kin selection theory and models of reproductive skew. The evolution of social behavior is perhaps one of the most controversial topics of biology, since the emergence of such behavior implies the evolution of altruistic traits that reduce the chance of reproduction (fitness) of individuals, through Natural Selection ( Freeman & Herron, 2009). Currently, there are models that link outputs for this apparent paradox, being the "Kinship Selection Theory" or "Theory of…

Evolutionary psychology is defined “the branch of psychology that studies the ways in which adaptation and natural selection are connected with mental processes and behavior.” (Rathus, 2013) Natural selection is important because it is the ability to allow species to adapt to the current environment in order to survive and reproduce. Evolutionary psychologists study how adaption and natural selection connect with behavior and mental processes. In other words, they study changes in human…

Although we cannot observe and see the actual features of Neanderthals, as they are extinct, we do have their skeletal remains that show similarities between the two species and would be supported by Darwin with his natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection was based on pure observations. Darwin observed species that were separated by physical barriers, however still had similar features. Based on his observations Darwin came up with the idea that all species descend…