A)Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 for a cruise around the world.
1)He was well educated and had a strong interest in natural history.
2)He also had keen powers of observation and an analytical mind.
3)Each place he went he collected animal and plant specimens to his collection.
(a)He examined his specimens and filled notebooks with his observations.
B)Throughout the voyage he witnessed countless wonders of nature.
1)He demanded explanations for these wonders.
II)The Diversity of Life.
A)When Darwin visited tropical South America he saw countless species.
1)In one Brazilian forest he collected 68 different species of beetles.
2)This was amazing because he wasn't specifically looking for beetles.
B)Scientists now estimate that there are as many as 10 million species alive today.
C)When Darwin traveled he found evidence of organisms that have vanished from the earth.
1)Scientists estimate that more than 99.9% of the species that were alive are now extinct.
2)That means that several hundred million species have become extinct.
III)Fitness: To Survive and Reproduce.
A)Darwin was impressed by the many different ways in which organisms survive.
B)He noted that most animals and plants seem well designed to do what they do.
C)The combination of physical traits and behaviors that helps organisms survive and reproduce in their environment is what Darwin called fitness.
D)Darwin wrote The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1)He wrote that modern organisms have been produced through evolution.
(a)Evolution is a slow process of change in species over time.
2)He argued that each species has descended from other species over time.
3)He said that if you looked back far enough you will see that all species have common ancestors.
(a)He called this principal common descent.
4)He also argued that fitness arises through adaptation.
E)Successful adaptations enable organisms to be better suited to their environment.
1)He also used adaptation to describe any characteristic that increases an organisms fitness for survival.
Prior to Darwin, gender roles were enforced through the institutionalized interpretations of religion. ... With the onset of the enlightenment and the industrial revolution instead of women being able to more easily break out of their traditional gender roles, they were faced with a dilemma created by the biases in male driven science. ...
Even India, who had before been in the debt of England, now became England's creditor of over £100 million (Darwin, 43 & 44.) ... But this new hold on the colonies instead brought on a "second Colonial occupation- of the territories and put even greater economic strain on the inhabitants (Darwin, 46-48.) ... But what had before been seen as the empire's strength quickly became known as the Empire's moral dilemma after World War two. ... When walking into the voting booths, the public was now more concerned with unemployment and social Welfare then with the imperial fron...
Then my mind will finally will have a chance to rest on this dilemma. ... I had learned of Charles Darwin during a science class in high school and I went to the library to read of his past experiences. ... I decided to head to the library and read up on what Charles Darwin has to say about this subject. ...
Italians and other immigrants were immediately accused and blamed for the country dilemmas. An example of such a dilemma is when the government launched a surprise attack on the immigrants housing due to the phobia of them being communists. ... Bryan visited Atlanta in 1923 to deliver a fiery plea to the Georgia House of Representatives to restrict the teaching of Darwinism as a fact. ...
Contrary to the cartesian ideas of the moral status of animals, Charles Darwin investigated into the social complexes of animals to show that within these, animals perform and solve their own various social dilemmas, proved by the recent research of cognitive ethology suggesting that some non-human animals construct symbolic representation and form their own language. In his book 'The Decent of Man', Darwin demonstrated otherwise to that of Descartes automaton animals that, although consciousness remains a problem for understand cognitive minds, animals possess a phenomenal consciou...
Darwin maybe sensed the weakness of his main theory that dealt with moral sentiments that he threw in a second theory just in case. ... Darwin saw this beauty which caused him to stress mainly the pure version of his theory. ... Trivers, which suggestions from William Hamilton started a game called the prisoner's dilemma. ... This is known as "iterated prisoner's dilemma. ... Unlike prisoner's dilemma both can eventually win if they just cooperate (Wright 1994). ...
Evolutionists call this the "winding-up dilemma" and have known about this for over 50 years." ... Each major group of organisms appears abruptly in the fossil record without any transitions." (8, 245) Another leading evolutionist and geologist from the Field Museum of Natural History, David Raup, says: "We are now about 120 years after Darwin's time and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. ... The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than in Darwin's time"" (Morris, 47...
Abiding by abstract, universal moral principles Through these stages, one can use an answer about a dilemma to determine which stage a person has grown to. ... Feminist usually seek sexual equality and gender justice in posing solutions for ethical dilemmas (Pinch, 17). ... Charles Darwins theory of evolution can help explain why woman care more than most men. ...
