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    Skin is the most apparent and the biggest organ on the human body. Nina Jablonski the speaker, conveys the theme about how skin color is that specific color because of environmental climate factors. She communicates that the region that the person lives in will have a participating factor in what color their skin. Nina identifies that we all started off in an homogeneous community and have evolved into our diversity that is projected today. Nina focuses her evaluation with 2 main explorers…

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    Social Darwinism in society was established during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. During this time period Charles Darwin believed that people or living species competed with each other or to survive within their environment that was suitable for them. When one survives then that is the environment or society they belong too. Charles Dickens wrote the novel A Christmas Carol, in the 19th century and was inspired by the circumstances London was experiencing during this time. Dickens wrote A…

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    The evolution of influenza can happen in a pig which is suitable for a virus to evolve. Within the pig’s stomach, the virus can run into another form of influenza and create a new and maybe a better version of influenza that is deadlier. That means that this version could be immune to certain medicine. The battle within the human or animal body is an ever-recurring fight and not succumbing to influenza. The fight for survival is constant from lack of resources to sickness and disease. When two…

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    because there are so many different species. All life on Earth is related because everything came to be from common origin yet beginning 4 billion years ago. Throughout the time living things have changed or evolved to fit different environments. Evolution theory proposed by Charles Darwin claims that organisms constantly change to adopt special environment where harsher organisms survive and weak organisms extinct. This process called natural…

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    Inherit the Wind Summary The film starts with Bertram Cates behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Rachel Brown, friend and teacher,. also the daughter of the town’s minister. She urges Cates to plead guilty and at the mercy of the court. At this time, lawyers and journalists arrive for the trial to view and spectate. Matthew Harrison Brady leads the prosecution, and arrives to a picnic in his honor. He meets with Reverend Brown, District…

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    “uninterested” genetics, is “a fascinating but dumb idea”, the CEO and Ehrlich were correct since genetic evolution, is an unnecessary medium of science which involves the expenditure of large amounts of resources and requirements and garners risk…

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    look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases; we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin clears up the questions previously asked. He tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of…

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    The Scopes trial was between the days of July tenth and July twenty-first, which even included the selection of the jury. The charges that Scopes faces were that he violated the Tennessee anti-evolution law, because he used a textbook that included materials about human evolution. The case was just a misdemeanor with a fine of about one hundred dollars, which should have been disposed of in a few hours. That was not the case, the ACLU wanted this cases to be the center of attention,…

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    Roscoe maintained that evolution is a fair explanation for psychological concepts. She asserted that people assessing the value of evolutionary psychology do so with bias, thus not looking at its core tenets with any form of objectivity. Roscoe correctly identifies that evolutionary psychologists explain human mental processes within the context of evolutionary adaptations. However, Roscoe’s conclusion that evolutionary psychology has been immensely useful in the matter of biological sciences…

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    Among the many arguments for intelligent design, Behe’s argument of irreduciblecomplexityisbyfaroneofthemostfascinatingones. Whilemany may consider Darwin’s theory of evolution to be the catch-all argument that irrefutably demolishes any and all argument for intelligent design, Behe manages not only to propose a design theory compatible with it, but also to use it to further empower his argument. Ultimately, Behe’s irreducible complexity argument lacks the support needed to differentiate itself…

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