Kin selection

This piece of of marvelous reality nature documentary is my favorite among the three. From the astounding visual to the message conveyed, ‘March of the Penguins’ worths chewing the cud. The story plot begins with two adventurous men, Laurent Chalet and Jerome Maison. Spending a whole year in Antarctica, they depict the lifecycle of the Emperor Penguins. Being the largest in size of any other species of penguin, Emperor Penguins are able to stand almost fifty inches tall.…

The novels "The Jurassic Park" and "The War of the Worlds" were written by Michael Crichton and H.G. Wells respectively. The former was published in 1990 and the latter in 1898. Both novels belong to the science fiction genre and deal with issues related to survival of mankind. Wells's novel might have influenced the film version of "The Jurassic Park (1993)" although there is almost a century difference between their creations. An interesting fact is that Steven Spielberg, the director of the…

1. What is alula? - Alula is a set of feathers on the first digit of birds which permits a slot on the wing. 2. What is crop milk? – Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of crop of parent…

“One can take the ape out of the jungle but not the jungle out of the ape” These lines were written in Frans de Wall’s book our inner ape. The statement is clear but can also be interpreted in different ways. Humans have been constantly evolving but the common ancestral genes that we share with the apes, shows us that we have a lot of similarities but also differences too. Frans De Wall’s book Our Inner Ape, looks at how all of us humans have an inner ape in us and the question here is now that…

Charles Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection which is the genetic change or changes in the frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals. At the time charles darwin was coming up with the idea of natural selection religion played a big part no one knew of anything different so having a new idea come forth was shocking to people, the idea of natural selection people couldn't even think about happening, everyone just wanted…

contemporary origin theories? Intelligent design is the relatively young theory of how there may be more to the origin of our, and every, species then just a collection of random chaotic event. Darwin insisted in his theory of natural of natural selection; that individuals, amongst various species, with optimal survival traits would outlast and thrive in contrast to those with less beneficial traits. Lamarck, father of evolution theory, would have believed these traits would have been slowly…

All of whom saw the variation caused by breeding or artificial selection to acquire a desired trait. Darwin just had to puzzle together the missing pieces and voila. He proves evolution. Sounds simple in theory, but the amount of investigation Darwin put forth is astonishing. If you read On the Origin of Species, it feels…

to an island and become isolated from their parent population; natural selection acts to modify the founder population”. This is according to Ernst Mayr. • Peripatric speciation: this is almost the same with allopatric speciation the difference is that this type of isolation does not have to be necessarily on an island. • Parapatric speciation: “should a new species come into contact with a new abiding area, natural selection will occur to favor adaptation as according to the new…

Niels Henrick David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1885. In 1911 he received his Ph.D. from Copenhagen University. Later on he moved to England to study under J.J. Thomson in Cambridge and under Ernest Rutherford in Manchester. In 1913 he published his model of the atom, which was based on Rutherford’s planetary model. After his publication of his model he received worldwide fame. Unfortunately, Bohr’s model worked only for hydrogen atoms. Which made the final atomic model yet to be…

According to the theory of evolution, humans are the descendents of animals and simply evolved from their more basic state. In the case of humans, they are believed to be the descendants of ancient primates. This ideology raises the question of what the true difference is between animals and modern humans. This debate on what makes a human being a human has raged for decades and will most likely continue for many more. Despite this, while humans share many characteristics with animals, they are…