Natural selection

an examination of the reasons why so many scholars remain unfavorable to the idea of evolution through natural selection. The idea that seems simple to those who understand it, but scholars somehow manage to get confused. The book explains the idea of comparative advantage, meaning a trade between two countries that normally raises the income of both. Similar to evolution through natural selection, this concept seems simple for those who understand it. However, the author is concerned why…

The book The Emperor's New Clothes; Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium, by Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses the concept of race throughout human history. He discusses how humans perceive race before Darwin’s discoveries, in colonial America, and looks at eugenics. He presents common theories and “truths” about race for the era in each time period. He starts the book by comparing the story the Emperor's New Clothes to how humans perceive race. He makes the connection through the mass…

In this book, Charles Darwin defines the theory of evolution as, “The process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable, physical or behavioral traits (Darwin, 1901). The author also explains the concept of natural selection as, “The process by which organisms with genomic characteristics that make them better suited for their environment, and produce more offspring.” This goes to show that evolution is an important topic to understand, and to be taught in schools…

not universal or natural, elitism and exclusivity counterproductive, and that competition was not fixed, healthy, eternal, or inevitable8. Notably, Fredrick Engels mentioned an “evolutionary”, ever-advancing vision of Darwin 's biological world in 1883 upon Marx 's death as providing a dual sense of hope for progressively better versions of humanity9. Most explicitly, the Anarchist author Kropotkin argued that “mutual aid” was, demonstrable through Darwinian biology, the best “natural” outcome…

When Charles Darwin published his work on natural selection, he suggested how absolutely important the ability to adapt is in the natural world. However, the concepts of adaptation and evolution apply to more than survival of the fittest in the natural world and, in fact, hold true in business as well. Founded in the 1930s, the Old Spice company produces hygiene products for men and women, with their original focus being on shaving soap and aftershave lotion (“History of Old Spice,” n.d.). An…

Intelligent people don’t come around so often, but when they do we take advantage of their knowledge. Charles Darwin, English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection once said, “ It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change”. Throughout the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the main character Buck was the prime example of evolution throughout the novel. Going from a typical pampered house dog,…

population and be passed on to future generations. Evolution is a scientific theory proposed by Charles Darwin that offers explanations and predictions for naturally occurring phenomena based on observations and experiments that occurring in the natural world. Physical anthropology is one branch of anthropology involving the origin, evolution, and mixture of people. Physical anthropologist main concerns are human and primate evolution, variation and its importance and human behavior. Physical…

Whether in the sea staring into the violet straight pupil of an octopus, observing a marine iguana washed by waves gnawing at algae, or facing a serene wizened tortoise-- any visitor to the Galapagos Islands can not help but ponder, "how did such creatures come into existence?" And they would not be the first. "Considering the small size of these islands, we feel the more astonished at the number of their aboriginal beings, and at their confined range... Hence, both in space and time, we seem to…

The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwinism is a cognitive science based book by Keith Stanovich that was created to show that humans are able to attain a “rational self-determination while still accepting all of the evident implications that come with the genetic revolution and Darwinism”. While humans always took thought that they were making decisions based on self-preservation, Stanovich states that we are persuaded to make decisions for the betterment of our genes. Due to…

social adaptation. Over time, phenotypic traits and genetic variation seem to be heavily derived from the ancestors. Moreover, natural selection is a key microevolutionary force that is involved in every adaptation and mutations between species. According to Lovejoy (2009), “the ultimate source of any explication of human acumen must be natural selection” (p.9). Natural selection ensures genetic variation and polygenic traits that are necessary. For our several labs, we looked at multiple…