Sociocultural evolution

Over the centuries, two schools of thought arose, presenting different ideas on the creation of mankind. Evolution and religion both presented ways mankind could have been created, however, a compromise couldn’t be made between the two due to their radically different natures. In Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Bert Cates, a science teacher, is on trial for teaching evolution in the highly religious town of Hillsboro. Henry Drummond, a famous lawyer from Chicago, is sent…

In 1859, Charles Darwin documented that evolution of life on Earth had taken place and proposed the idea that natural selection was to blame in his book, The Origin of Species (Leicht and McAllister, 2016). Darwin’s findings arose from the different heritable traits, which lead to differences among alleles in a population. Genetic variation is the differences in genetic frequencies in a population and is the basis of evolution. The Hardy Weinberg Principle was developed to test for genetic…

One of the most heavily debated topics of all time is evolution. However, if evolution were not at work then there would be a loss as to one of the ways that we understand how we all came to be. “Evolution is the change in allele frequencies of a population, which over time produces a population with new or modified characteristics. (Evolution: The Big Picture)” Evolution can be achieved through four different methods: mutation, genetic drift, migration, and natural selection. Out of the four…

The emergence of cytochrome oxidase is considered to be a very important event in evolutionary history. However, not much is known on the development and emergence of this enzyme. Molecular data demonstrates how cytochrome oxidase emerged before the divergence of archaea and bacteria, and well before the great oxidation event. This paper proposes a research plan to investigate the origins of cytochrome oxidase. Background Throughout the three domains of life, a variety of metabolisms are present…

said by the father of evolution himself, Charles Darwin who spent his life’s work on learning all he can about evolution. In the world we live in all organisms change, and were not the same thousands of years ago as they are today. There are two main theories to this process; scientific theory and religious theory. Many people go against evolution completely go against the theory of evolution; this is mainly due to religious reasons. However, science normally does not lie evolution has been…

Bacon’s theory was a lot easier for the contemporaries to understand and it helped the contemporaries mesh with his theory because he mentions some religious factors into his theory. Still today Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in his writing of Natural Selection is not accepted because religion is playing a large part in society and so they are not looking at the evidence that Darwin has reasoning for they look towards religion. Trying to evaluate the two texts is hard…

Asia. Furthermore, fossils and different layers of the earth are found in North America in the Grand Canyon layers, which prove a flood created the canyons in days, not millions of years as evolutionist teach. First, evidence that takes away from evolution is that: evolutionists would have to believe that the Colorado River flowed up hill; the Colorado River is more than 4,000 below the elevation where the Colorado River meets the Grand Canyon. When you look at this through a creationist…

Darwin’s theory of evolution is a theory that is universally acclaimed by numerous scientists and citizens. Darwin’s general theory of evolution states that complex creatures such as us have evolved from more simplistic creatures over time and essential genetic mutations are preserved because they act as an aid for survival (Anon. 2002). This process is known as natural selection (Anon. 2002). Subsequently, Darwin argued that natural selection is an inevitable outcome of three principles caused…

The hairless gene in humans is recessive. hairless lacks a shared evolution with Hairless in Drosophila melanogaster. Yet, Hairless presents evolutionary history with other genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Hairless has developed an antagonistic relationship with the Suppressor of Hairless. The Hairless gene depends on epistatic…

Dr. Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince both collaborated on the New York Times bestseller, Survival of the Sickest, which discusses how organisms surpassed their challenges through methods of evolution or medicine. The human race evolved and used medicine to combat the environment and the invaders trying to enter their body. One form of invader was Malaria, a disease spread from host to host by female mosquitos. Some invaders are already embedded in our DNA like the disease hemochromatosis. This…