Punctuated equilibrium

In preparation for this assignment I talked with several people, asking them the interview questions, I will address the answers of four of the people I talked with. Each question is listed below with a summary of the answers following. How long are the days in Genesis 1? Why? Three of the four persons basically said the exact time is unknown. The fourth said a day was from sun up to sun down no hours were specified. How old is the Earth and life? Why? One person said about 6,000 years, two…

Revision Faith vs. Fact: Can Religion and Science Coincide? Evolution. In my case I learned about this concept in elementary school biology, then in middle school, again in high school, and now it is once again reiterated in my college level classes. In the past, the theory of Evolution and the concepts relating to it were just another part of the curriculum I needed to learn in order to get a good grade. It was something that we were taught as basically being fact, a viable explanation as to…

Schizophrenia is an early-onset mental illness (van Dongen and Boomsma, 2013) Positive symptoms: “hallucinations, delusions, and racing thoughts” Negative symptoms: “poor social functioning, apathy, and lack of emotion” Cognitive symptoms: “disorganized thoughts, concentration problems, memory problems, and difficulty with completing tasks” Theory of mind is impaired in Schizophrenia (Brüne, 2001, 2005) “The cognitive capacity to represent one’s own and other persons’ mental states…in terms of…

How Species Adaptations Affect Their Survival In Respect To The Environment Background Information What are adaptations and what causes them to occur? Adaptations occur within a species, or kind. Adaptations are what can either be an advantage or disadvantage for as an example an animal such as an Giraffe. A Giraffe has a long neck as in the past, food wasn't as scarce and was easier to find lower towards the ground, but over a long period of time, the Giraffes developed a special adaptations…

applied because traditional cars are still on the roads while the next generation technology is almost here and promise rapid performance. Nevertheless, if people will change all traditional cars on self-driving ones they appear, the theory of Punctuated equilibrium is more relevant. New technology will immediately replace the old one and then only incremental changes in period of adoption process will be applied. What we can definitely say is that driverless car is a radical innovation, not…

One of the biggest issues I have seen in my personal life as well as my working career is the ability to totally trust people. The definition that we looked at in class defines trust as the willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based on positive expectations about the authority’s actions and intentions. A great deal of my distrust at work stems from the total lack of communication within our group. My colleagues and I have conferred on many occasions that management continually…