Sociocultural evolution

Artistotle/Plato (384BC-347BC): Artistotle was a Greek philosopher, born in 384BC died in 347BC. Through his work, the “Scala naturae” also called “the great chain of being”, Artistotle tried to analyze the relationship between all living things. “Scala naturae” is the earliest work of taxonomy in biology, which categorized species on Earth from the simplest to most complex. He also declared that species could not ever change over time. Nicholas Steno (1638-1686): Steno was a Danish scientist.…

In the essay Evolution as Fact and Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, he argues that generally, creationists miss use the terms “fact” and “theory” to attack the indisputable concept of evolution. He argues that the question scientists are attempting to answer is not whether evolution occurred, this is a fact as he defines it, but rather the question should be how evolution occurs. The essay begins by bringing forward the idea that old issues should be brought up only if there is new evidence. That…

In order to survive in a changing world, one needs to be willing to adapt to new ideas and customs. As Charles Darwin famously theorized, if one is resistant to change, then strength and intelligence is irrelevant to success or survival. Chinua Achebe reveals this message in Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo is unwilling to change his thoughts and outlook as evidenced by his violence towards the white men and his refusal to accept Nwoye’s conversion, which ultimately leads to his own demise. Once…

As Isaac Asimov once put it, “The physical world is a wonderful world, but it is also confusing.”(1) In the ancient times, civilizations turned to myths and/or created religions to explain natural phenomena. In other words, humans have tried, and are still trying to figure out, the universe. This inquisition started in ancient civilizations and leads up to the presents day. Facts are sorted out from fiction in this era but, in previous ones, theories arose and were spread throughout the country…

A new art movement is the need of a specific era, though it is well to remember that it is the subsequent result of hundredsof years of slow growth. It often produces new methodologies that will eventually form the aesthetic, psychological approach of that time period .In history, a new literary movement arrives contradicting the existing movement with a new set of narrative techniques, plot, style of writing, style of living, etc. which wouldform the writers and their work in the…

living organism, Coser (1977). The writer outlines Spencer’s theory as well as the writer’s understanding on development. The relevance of Spencer’ theory will be mentioned by comparison of the similarities and differences towards a general theory of evolution. 1. Hebert Spencer’s theory The biological Organism Employing the organismic analogy that is, comparing organic (bodily) and super-organic (societal) organization, Spencer developed a perspective for analyzing the structure, function, and…

• The Golden Retriever breed was developed only during the late 19th century. • The Golden Retriever was first originated and developed in Scotland. • The person who first initiated the Golden Retriever into the world was Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks. He was popularly known as Lord Tweed Mouth. • The Golden Retriever belongs to the fourth smartest breed of dogs in the world. • The Golden Retriever are one of the most popular and much-loved dogs first in the United States of America, Australia,…

Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design is the belief that the complexity found in nature could not simply have been the result of natural selection and evolution, but had to have been designed by a superior creator…

knowledge from class regarding the criteria for natural selection, I predict the parameter regarding heritability would have the greatest impact on the evolution of beak size in finches because this is the essential requirement necessary for an increase in frequency to occur by natural selection. Evolution is a result of natural selection, so without it evolution cannot occur compared to the other parameters. Also, a population cannot evolve if the trait is not able to be passed down from the…

are trying to produce results that will validate it. The results of these kind of research are non-objective and therefore unreliable. Furthermore, instead of explaining what happened from the different scientific elements considered true, as for evolution, creationists tend to pinpoint the few things evolutionism cannot already prove, use them to discredit this theory and give themselves more credit. Considering that creationism, unlike evolutionism, is not based on facts but using facts, it…