Vestigiality

The theories presented in Darwin’s book the origins of species changed the path of science to what we know today. Darwin presented an elegant idea that explained the history of life up to the current time. His four postulates stated that individuals in a population have variability, those variations are hereditable and result in an increase in reproduction success. Finally, survival and reproduction are not random. Natural selection acts only on the individual not the species. These environmental benefits then get passed on over time and that results in evolution. Its important to note that selection only favors organisms in specific environments and can end up being disadvantageous in others (Darwin, 1859). Darwin’s original theories were placed only on organism and species but they can be expanded to many avenues of study such as economics. A business and a species share very similar lives. They both go though ups and downs while some flourish and others die. Using this logic, observations about businesses as if they were individual organism as well as complex species can be made. A business that followed the path of a species would be Borders bookstore. When borders were first around it was in a very suitable environment with few predators. It began in Ann Arbor Michigan in an environment that was perfect for it. An intellectual college based town allowed it to flourish unimaginable. Form then on it grew too more places and became more geographically widespread and even…

that function for balance, grasping (prehensile), or brushing away insects (Spinney, 2008). The development of tails are profound in the human embryo during the sixth week of gestation, consisting of several vertebrae, but the tail eventually disappears as development continues, and the vertebrae fuse to form the coccyx (Rogers, n.d.). The human tailbone demonstrates a linkage of common ancestry to species with tails and provides evidence for human evolution by suggesting how by natural…