Natural selection

Darwin didn't know about it. When did the the theory of evolution occur? What Darwin found out is about different type of living beings being able to survive and reproduce based on how well the species fits or don’t fit in the environment is by natural selection. For the species that survive and reproduce would be apart of survival of the fittest. For the same species that didn’t fit in with the environment, that would be called struggle for survival. How he concluded this thought he found…

“Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on Earth, It applies to the whole universe.” ~ by John Polkinghorne Evolution is an improvement of Earth through its birth. If humans were around we each would have witnessed the birth and death of the mountain ranges, and the ice ages that comes and goes like the storms we have today. Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms…

distinctions. In this essay, I will discuss the views on both works in a sense of the distinction between “natural and artificial” and “emotion and religion” and “human and animal”. I will first encounter the distinction of natural…

trying to do what was right and teaching what he believed in, like many teachers do. There has been research that evolution exists in animals. PBS says, ”Evolution is not a random process. The genetic variation on which natural selection acts may occur randomly, but natural selection itself is not random at all. The survival and reproductive success of an individual is directly related to the ways its inherited traits function in the context of its local environment” (PBS). This shows that…

“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” A quote from Stephan Jay Gould. Gould was an American paleontologist, a biologist, and a historian of science. A paleontologist is a scientist who studies the fossil remains of life. A biologists is a scientist who studies living organisms. A historian of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge. Gould…

reasons for alarm that present day foundations had put aside the beneficial parts of natural selection. Eugenicists persistently played on the specter of weak and sickly humans which was safeguarded through cutting edge prescription, cleanliness, and magnanimous organizations, while the more savvy and as far as anyone knows better individuals were starting to intentionally limit their multiplication. This was creating natural degeneration, as indicated by numerous eugenicists. Their answer was…

Evolution is the theory used to describe exactly why life on earth changes the way it does. It is evident that all things change throughout time, but understanding the reason behind these changes can be infuriating. In Evolution for Everyone, David Sloane Wilson bonds the basic concepts of evolutionary theory with different disciplines such as: art, religion, language, and pro-social behaviors. Wilson establishes a unity between the evolutionary theory and the development of culture, language,…

While temporary adaptations exist to acclimatize individuals to meet the needs of the times, there are also genetically rooted adaptations through the survival of numerous bouts of natural selection. One question that arises is, if race is not a biological construct, is it an evolutionary construct? In examining some characteristics such as cephalic index and stature, scientists have found differences in these categories in the same ethnic…

Social Darwinism and the Eugenics Movement Social Darwinism is the belief of natural selection that applies to social organizations and to individuals in society. The ones who were better suited would be well developed while those that were poorly adapted would suffer, this was Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was created in the late nineteenth century. It was a highly developed movement that was involved with the theory of evolution. However, the theory was mainly based from the work of…

survive into the next generation. Bipedalism would have allowed males to provide their mates and offspring with high-quality food as well as to help protect them from any looming dangers. This explanation makes biological and behavioral sense. Natural selection cannot create a behavior like bipedalism, but it can act to select the behavior once it has arisen. Surely some early hominids were better at upright walking than others, a behavior that permitted them…