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    Charles Robert Darwin was born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection shaped modern biology. A country gentleman, Darwin at first baffled religious English society by suggesting that animals and humans shared an ancestry. However, his atheistic biology appealed to new professional scientists, and by the time of his death the idea of evolution had spread through all of science, literature, and…

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    Charles Darwin went on a voyage and the ship name was called HMS Beagle. His most popular studies were in the Galapagos islands. He discovered that in 1831 that finches have different beaks and colored feathers in different islands of the Galapagos islands. This meant, if the finches had an offspring, it could be different from it's parents, creating a new species of finches. Two different organisms Darwin studied were pigeons and Iguanas. Let's start with the domestic pigeon. When Darin…

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    The Relationship between “Radical evil” and “The Banality of Evil” From “radical evil” to “the banality of evil”, the understanding from Arendt of totalitarianism and contemporary society does not transform ultimately, but it is going further constantly. If the key of the “radical evil” is to disclose the formation of the totalitarian system, the propaganda of the bureaucracy, the operation of the organization and the extreme society which makes people become banal, “the banality of evil” should…

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    Throughout several generations Darwinism has been applied to several concepts, and people continue to expand on it everyday. Darwinism is merely just the evolution of species through natural selection, which was developed through Charles Darwin. Darwin did many tests and studies to advance and add on to many theories discovered by other scientists, but all of the theories discovered by other scientists just go under Darwinism. Darwin did not come up with every theory that is a part of Darwinism,…

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    Throughout this course, we were exposed to many ideas about organism classification due to evolutionary linkages, survival of the fittest and random out comes. Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory often creates conflicts with religious teachings in particular, Christianity; many Christians disagree with Darwin’s theory that “man is not the most supreme creature on earth, but humans just evolved from a single cell over long periods of time.” Faith is intangible; it could simply be a belief.…

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    Principles of Geology. Lyell’s theory that minute changes would gradually increase over long periods of time helped Darwin theorize and coin the term Natural Selection, and with Lyell’s encouragement, he began working on his most popular book The Origin of Species. In turn, Darwin attempted to credit Lyell’s work in his writings by finding evidence and theories that supported Lyell’s belief of Uniformitarianism—the theory that geological processes that alter the…

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    Ethnological Theory Presented by: Ramin Farooq A theory in folklore studies that arose in England in the 1860’s and was current in world scholarship until the early 20th century. The originators of the ethnological theory were E. B. Tylor and A. Lang.Ethology studies the behavior of animals and humans from an evolutionary perspective Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth Human Ethology studies the biological basis of behavior. It is concerned with the adaptive, or survival,…

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    History indicated that leaders are often portrayed as divine figures or heroes suggesting that they are genetically different. But does heritage and genetics really play such an important role in relation to one's ability to lead and affect their power to rule? In other words, are leaders naturally born to lead and "genetically different"? Regarding Washington's presidency up to present day, some leaders are shown to be more capable of being in power while others are less likely prone to be…

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    In the field of Biology, Darwin (2009) argues that only the animals who can adapt have a chance to continue their species and survive. The same could be said about companies in a globalised world, with internet that enables information to travel the planet in a second and airplanes fly international flights every day as examples, only the firms who knows how use these “factors” might survive. Thus, globalisation, which Hobsbawm (2003) defines as the scale of the trade in goods and services and…

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    An important experiment during Darwin’s lifetime that was able to show the theory of natural selection to be true was William Dallinger’s experiment with microbes. Darwin actually knew of this experiment because Dallinger contacted him. The experiment was held in 1878, where Dallinger placed microbes and water into a copper vessel, then slowly raised the temperature in it. He did this over a span of months, bringing the temperature up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. What Dallinger found was that the…

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