Origin myth

function of society, but has long-standing genetic roots. At the time, when edenic views of human nature were still en vogue, and the “state of grace” still dominated psychological thinking, Wrangham’s book challenged people to look deeper at the origins of violence to find the evolutionary cause. Twenty years later, the thesis of the book seems intuitive, and most people are willing to accept both circumstantial and genetic causes of violence. This acceptance of their thesis means that the…

Social Darwinism is the theory that groups of people or races can be compared to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin did with plants and animals in nature. During the period of 1930 and 1970, social Darwinist theories played a major role in negatively impacting the lives of Aborigines in Australia to a great extent. They used the social Darwinist theories as an excuse for the white Australians to apply Darwinist theories like 'survival of the fittest' and 'white superiority' and…

As much as we credit Darwin for the theory of evolution, he in fact was not the first naturalist to propose this idea that species somehow change over a period of time into new species with different characteristics. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was both a naturalist and a botanist with extreme expertise in invertebrates. Before 1800 Lamarck believed that the idea of evolution was impossible. The developing fossil record and concept behind extinction most likely…

The theories presented in Darwin’s book the origins of species changed the path of science to what we know today. Darwin presented an elegant idea that explained the history of life up to the current time. His four postulates stated that individuals in a population have variability, those variations are hereditable and result in an increase in reproduction success. Finally, survival and reproduction are not random. Natural selection acts only on the individual not the species. These…

Chapter 1 Explained how the findings of Charles Darwin & Arthur Smith contributed to the missing pieces of evolution with humans. The findings included a variety of bones from hominids and relations to certain ape families, how a new species was discovered Eoanthropus dawsoni which had become extinct years before. Christians became offended by the idea because they derived from the belief of genesis, all creations were made by god in 6 days. Evolution theory started to become more controversial…

Anthropologists and archeologists for the last hundred years have forgotten and ignored evidence showing that humans like us have inhabited the earth for over millions of years. Forbidden Archeology shows that anatomically modern humans have lived on the earth for million of years.This gives solid facts about the theory of human evolution. Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson worked and have created a book called “Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.” This book leads…

For Darwin’s theory of evolution there are where the questions of the diversity of life by evolution occurring, what was Darwin’s evidence of evolution and what 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…

This poem’s main focus is to discuss the topic of natural selection. The author of this poem goes on to discuss how everything in this world is created by randomness, and biological need to change at the same time. That evolving is something that starts from simplicity, and ends in utter complexity. This poem also says that natural selection is something that happens out of necessity, yet it is a process that takes place without being able to control it. Everything in life begins as a simple…

In her 1866 preface to Origin of the Species, Clemence Royer, an anthropologist, feminist, and translator of Darwin, deliberately spited that Darwin’s theory went against the Old Testament, but all of his theses and evidence were more logical than God being the creator of all…

Darwin's evolutionary view of the world has been of the greatest human achievements of the human race. However, the evolution theory itself evolves over time, as it is expected from any other living entity. The modern evolutionary synthesis was the first major update to the Darwins model. The main idea behind update was integrating the latest achievements and understandings from biology in the original evolutionary framework. But it was not the last update. These years, a new group of…