Underworld: Evolution

lobbyers for Laissez-faire economics. They felt that to give Britain the means evolve into an industrial society, businesses needed to be able to operate with little government interference. Spencer was influential in applying Darwin’s ideas to social evolution, relating his theories about competition amongst species to social life, justifying his coined term, “survival of the fittest”. The growing gap between the rich and the poor in Britain was not only justified by social Darwinism and the…

God is Real Famous scientist Isaac Newton once said “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.” It is safe to say that some people need more convincing than Isaac Newton to believe in God. There have been countless movies made to convince the existence of the existence of God. An example is Heaven is For Real; unfortunately, there was controversy as to whether it was made up in order to become wealthy. There always seems to be a reason as to why the…

Ever since the beginning of mankind, humans have pondered the purpose of their existence. Throughout history, a variety of philosophers, as well as authors, have asserted what they think to be the meaning of life. Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates all offer a unique outlook on the age old question of human existence. The authors of these books assert…

Eugenics: Argument FOR by May Slaughter Human genome editing enhances humans with desirable traits, either known as positive or negative eugenics, possible. Eugenics was coined by Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Darwin, in 1883. 19th century Britain looked down upon anyone, of the lower class. They had planned on sterilizing all of the following: mental illness, alcoholism, criminality, chronic poverty, blindness, deafness, feeble-mindedness, and prostitutes. Along with Galton, Hitler has also…

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. “Some insects, fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is usually accompanied by a change of habitat or behavior”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki). But this change has been incorporated to human’s life…

Easter Island a wonder of the world always questioned by scientists and historians for years. The chilean island in the south west pacific, has geographical wonders. Known to the native people as the Rapi Nui, it was named Easter Island when a European traveler discover the island first time on Easter day. The people of the island mysteriously vanished, but not entirely there are still descendants that live in polynesia. The big question is how did the ancient people suddenly disappears, and…

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. A quote by George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm. Anywhere you look or go in life you will find a system in place. It may not be obvious at first, or it may be dominant in that environment, but we have hierarchy wherever we go. This book was written in 1945 and oppression still reigns. Even in first world countries. I won’t even start talking about third world countries. That's 71 years down the way and nothing has changed…

Power and privilege: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Oscar Wilde’s Salome, published in French in 1893 and translated to English the following year, is a biblical one-act play that revolves around the central themes of gender roles, institutionalized misogyny, as well as the ‘the gaze’ and its effect. Being a somewhat controversial play, it was denied the right to be staged in Britain until 1931 (Price & Tydeman, 1) as it was illegal to depict biblical figures in…

4. Genetic drift is an intriguing concept in genetics that focuses on explaining the random variation in changes of allele frequencies from one generation to the next in populations. The variation comes from sampling error because in many genetic models populations are assumed to be infinitely large, which is seldom the case. A simple mathematical approach to modelling genetic drift is the Wright-Fisher model. In this essay the general principles of the Wright-Fisher model will be explained, and…

Wasps make up an enormously diverse array of insects, with some 30,000 identified species. We are most familiar with those that are wrapped in bright warning colors—ones that buzz angrily about in groups and threaten us with painful stings. But most wasps are actually solitary, non-stinging varieties. And all do far more good for humans by controlling pest insect populations than harm. Wasps are distinguishable from bees by their pointed lower abdomens and the narrow "waist," called a petiole,…