Kin selection

Alfred Wegener was a german scientist who developed the theory of Continental drift. He believed all the continents were one land mass. He called this super continent “Pangea”. Wegener used evidence from three sources to support his theory. First, was fossil evidence from reptiles and plants. “Cynognathus” was a reptile that had fossils found on South Africa, and Africa. This is only possible because of continental drift, the animal couldn't have swam across a whole ocean. The next reptile is…

through the Earth we all are changing. We are born and then we grow into adults and we get older and we die. A new generation is born by us dying. We are all apart of each other in some form or fashion. Charles Darwin had a theory call the natural selection. He observed that: if we all produced successfully…

In the period from 1860-1900, Darwin developed his theory of natural selection. Natural selection was the idea that a dominant species would overcome all the rest. This sparked many ideas and philosophies, such as a weakening in the church, the rise of Social Darwinism, and a surge of new ideas and thought. The church had always been the lead in the sciences of the day, but when scientists started to challenge the church, their strength began to falter. Darwin’s theory challenged the concept of…

Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species argues about the evolution and degeneration of Earth's species; but what about species on other planets? In H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds martians eventually ended up degenerating. Also in his novel the martians mainly have the same organs and functions of a human. And so that leads me to ask the question. How will the martians degenerated and evolve? What is Degeneration? Max Nordau discusses Degeneration in five books with…

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace is known for developing a theory of evolution using natural selection aside from the greater known, Charles Darwin. Wallace lived to be 90 years old, which is surprising for a man in that time period. He was born on January 8th, 1823 and lived till November 7th, 1913. His childhood was taken place in Kensington Cottage, southeastern Wales. His middle name was spelled weirdly due to a mistake at the time of registering his birth, which was never…

The Theory of Evolution, conducted by Charles Darwin brought a grateful amount of controversy in the science and education fields today. Debates between is Darwin’s evolution theory correct and if it should be taught in schools. Many disagree that Darwin’s theory should be taught in public schools because it is not proven and it’s a religious belief. Yet Darwin’s theory has all the characteristics of applying to science education. Teaching evolution in public schools wouldn’t change one’s morals…

Charles Darwin was a prolific and monumental figure in biology and modern science as a whole. Through his theory of evolution most of the current knowledge of biology is derived. Throughout the chapters X, XI, XII, and XIV of The Origin of Species Darwin argues that there is a mechanism that drives an evolution of species and that species inherently transform and mutate over long periods of time. Darwin argues that species have mechanisms and methods that modify them over long periods of time…

Natural selection is a change in organism over time that results in the rise of a new species. Natural selection drives the evolution of species by picking the ones that possibly have better benefits and can survive better. An example that shows how natural drives the evolution of species is the beetles. The beetles have two different colors that they can inherit from their parents. They can be in the color green or brown. The beetles will get eaten by crows depending on the environment they are…

The question that gets a lot of people worked up is, Is evolution real? Although many people have their arguments on whether or not it is, this paper is going to be about the actual scientific facts proven about evolution. Evolution, despite what some may believe to be true, is the process in which living organisms have changed and developed ”evolved” into different species, but are believed to have derived or originated from a single species or ancestral background (Biological Def.). This can…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin. Evolution is “the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth”. The theory of evolution has become one of the most controversial topics in science because of how the public reacts to the contents of the theory. The theory is controversial because it posses…