Sociocultural evolution

population. This explains that not only will natural selection play an important role in populations, but will genetic drift as well. Kimura through a series of experiments and observations was able to determine that genetic drift had a lot to do with evolution and the different allele frequencies expressed in the various populations. Todays scientist also agree with Kimura’s statements and support it via a numerous amounts of experiments and studies done that clearly explain this. Different…

In a majority of households in America children are taught from an early age, from going to church, that God created humans. The Holy Bible states, “… God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen.1:27). But is that accurate? Did a Supreme Being produce humans and all life on Earth? Or did we evolve over time from a single-celled organism? These are the types of questions that scholars, scientists, and teachers have been trying…

The theory of evolution, describes the human social dynamics and provides a significant support to the study of parenting (Geary and Flinn, 2001). Central to the evolutionary approach, are the differences between the characteristics of men and women, and their functions. Thus, the theory of evolution provides a valid framework for understanding different aspects of childrearing. Next to parenting and the differences between men and women, anxiety can also be approached from an evolutionary…

Movies, news, books, stories and others have changed people’s views and have misguided them. Many people would not believe that plants would grow on desert because it is such a dry place, but people realized that lovely plants grow there. Likewise, numerous individuals believe that beetles are just other insects that get in everyone’s way, but in reality they are extremely helpful for society. Moreover, voluminous societies believe that bats are wicked and malicious animals that want to harm…

Darwin derived the concept of the struggle for existence in part from Malthus's essay. He believed that creatures less fit for their environment would tend to die off. This would be called the struggle for existence. Some people thought that nature was a balanced system, but Darwin saw it as a mechanism. He believed the creatures that were best adapted would survive. Although Darwin agreed with Malthus on the struggle of individuals, he differed in opinion on Malthus's idea of the increase…

Through some research, I found that he is best known for one his evolution paper, called Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution. Dobzhansky states in the article his three predictions that have been disproven in the following years after its publication. These guesses include that Darwin’s theory of the tree of life will be confirmed through genetics, that biological science discoveries would focus on evolution-based work…

human nature pinpoints economic class and societal drives as the basis of human nature. Charles Darwin held a different view on human nature. He asserted that human nature is determined by behaviors that were selected for through the process of evolution. According to this theory,…

Natural and Unnatural Causes of Wildlife Endangerment and Extinction Animal extinction is a huge epidemic that is happening faster than we ever expected. Endangered species are dying off left and right due to natural and unnatural causes. Things like poaching and global warming are constantly effecting our environment and changing the way species are living every day. All humans have a responsibility to take care of our environment, which, in turn, will help protect our species and others as…

Earth’s biodiversity is been around for eons, one of the key factors why it have existed that long, is because of evolution and extinction. It is the nature’s way to continually adapt to the fast changing environment, though extinction is the “end of the line” of all living species; it is the key to the survival of the future generation species. But with humans around premature extinction will be a problem due to our selfishness and loss of respect to our environment. With humans also known as…

The notion of evolution, as described by both Lamarck and Darwin in the 1800’s, had such an impact on intellectual life that it has changed the way we study the human mind today. Darwin’s (1859) theory is still widely accepted as what we know as the theory of natural selection, and provides a structure for examining human behaviour. He saw the future of psychology as “based on a new foundation”, and evolutionary psychology is now still emerging and developing. Darwinian evolution means we can…