On the Origin of Species

Islands and noticed species that he did not recognize. From his time at the Galapagos, he discovered the theory of evolution and natural selection. Charles Darwin was the son of wealthy parents. His father was a doctor, and wanted Charles Darwin to become one himself. Although Charles ' father wanted him to become a doctor, he could do nothing to change Charles ' view on school. Charles Darwin disliked school, and would rather spend his time outdoors, learning the names of native species, and…

The Strength of the Yucca-Yucca Moth Interaction: Review of Past Scientific Studies Abstract The relationship between Yucca moths from Tegeticula, Parategeticula and Prodoxous with the Yucca plant (Agavaceae) has been observed over centuries. The strength of their interaction has created contradictory theories. Whether the relationship is obligate or falcultative is one of the ideas providing differing views. The effects of external influences have also been studied by many. In this review I…

Human Language: Innate or Constructed? Human language is a unique characteristic among species on planet Earth. Though many creatures use various methods to communicate, no known creatures other than humans have a language that vastly describes the universe. Is this ability innate or is it the product of environmental factors? In order to answer this, one must investigate a wide array of phenomena. First, it would be beneficial to define what language is. Though the exact meaning may be…

morphological characteristics. This can determine the genus and species and time the hominid was likely alive. It can also help anthropologists know more about what the living conditions were like in the time that that species was alive. Traits like a sagittal keel or large molars can show that the food that that species consumed was likely tough and required a lot of chewing. The molars that are present in older hominids would slowly go away as species adapted to softer foods, as would the…

with the geographical dispersal of organisms and species, enabled Darwin to discover creatures that roughly have the same body plan despite the species’s adaption to different environments, food resources and climatic conditions. An example would include Darwin’s discovery of three similar forms of the mockingbird on different islands or the thirteen species finches during his trip to the Galapagos. Nonetheless, these “closely allied” species inhabit neighboring spaces on unlike areas due to…

curious that this poem first mentions birds whilst titled “Some Dreams They Forgot,” because it seems like the birds may perhaps be representative of dreams themselves or perhaps, in the context of this poem, nightmares. These birds are of an unknown species yet the people “all held them…

People can come from different walks of life with different ideas in mind, and have unexpected similarities. This applies to Charles Darwin and Jane Austen. Charles Darwin, the author of The Origin of Species studies biology and Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice studies life from a psychologist and sociologist point of view. Both authors touch very different subjects in their books. However, they have unexpected similarities that is discovered in their books. Both Charles Darwin and…

What mattered were the raw materials themselves. Of all the plant species on the planet, just a predetermined number are conceivable, or valuable, to tame. To Diamond's amazement, the vast majority of these species are local to Europe ,Asia and the Middle East species like wheat, grain and rice, which developed wild in wealth in just these parts of the world. Diamond also discovers a similar dramatic inequality in…

Extinction is necessary for the Earth’s natural order. It is used as the world 's way of weeding out the weaker species that are unable to adapt or evolve to environmental change thus consequently dying out to make room for the newer better-adapted species which is key in providing the earth with a more sustainable and better-equipped equilibrium. With five mass extinctions notched into the earth 's belt it can hardly be denied that evolution and extinction are anything but a necessary, yet dark…

Although later they begin to find out, like the previous article, that divergence between these two species was over 500,000 years ago through PCR-amplified mtDNA (Noonan, 2010: 548); language is still a possibility. The research on Neanderthal genome that was studied showed that there is a FOXP2 gene present in Neanderthals that is believed to be the key-defining gene for the evolution of language (Noonan, 2010: 551). However, from my perspective, if the variety in their genome diverged 500,000…