Adapting to Survive

• Be able to use the terms variation, adaptation, natural selection, and evolution as they apply to this and

The animals have to defend themselves since there are so many species. Some animals adapt by using their body parts. One of the animals there are echidnas. They mainly use their spines “as a defense mechanism.” The long hairs on the echidnas are used as their spines and are made out of the same material as fingernails. Many animals have to survive different ways, such as wombats. They are “nocturnal animals.” The wombats sleep all day and at night they go out to hunt for food.

My animal has several characteristics that allow it to adapt to its environment. The first example would be its long, dark fur with an agouti pattern. The length of the fur helps the animal maintain its body heat, which makes it able to withstand the cold. Another trait is

Survival is the key struggle in The Shawshank Redemption. This film takes place in the corrupt Shawshank State Penitentiary where mental and physical abuses inflicted upon prisoners are the hard realities of the system. For the prisoners of Shawshank, life is often bleak and violent. However, the will to survive is what keeps the characters motivated to retain their humanity and challenge the institutionalization of Shawshank. In particular, the film’s main protagonists, Andy Dufresne and Ellis “Red” Redding, exemplify the struggle for survival in the face of a corrupt, frightening, and oppressive prison system. In order to survive the harsh realities of the world, people adapt with personal traits like courage and resourcefulness in addition to forming community with other people.

Based on your responses to the questions, you emphasized an individual with a CID, and their family/family members/caregivers collectively towards the biospsychosocial perspective and psychological adaptation. Resources should be equally allocated to all that is dealing with a CID. A CID is significant that can take so much from the individuals, and others around them. Resources should be given as a way of support. From my perspective, support is another way in offering a helping hand within and outside a family. For the psychological adaptation, it does take time for anyone to adapt to a situation and/or condition. Every person is not the same in being able to get over something quickly. Everyone deserves their own time to grieve to be able

What do you think when you first hear the word survival? Usually one thinks that survival is to outlive or to outlast physical hardships.However, most people forget that survival can also be mental and emotional. People can survive through both physical and emotional traumas. Such as death,heartbreak,and loneliness. Illustrating that in all three situations depressants are needed to survive. Therefore showing that to survive people will go to dangerous and extreme risks.

If mental health were to be defined as adaptedness to the current environment, even in a successful situation of positive adaptation (say someone with extreme social anxiety becoming a computer programer, or someone with depression who loves kids becoming a teacher), their condition is still a disorder. Let’s say someone is diagnosed with diabetes. Even if they are able to get a handle on their condition through an adaptive diet and knowledge of insulin treatments, they are still plagued by their diabetes, which will always be a disorder. The same is true of mental health. Just because an individual has adapted to their environment doesn’t mean their disorder ceases to be a difficulty in their lives, it simply alleviates some of the stress

From module three, the concept of coping behavior that I learned under the Adaption-Innovative (A-I) theory will have a direct impact within my work center. I think it is important to have coping behavior in order to bridge between the different levels of cognitive gap when I have an adaptor and an innovator to supervise. I know within my work center that I have subordinates who operate with different cognitive thinking style and I need to understand how my preferred style will affect my relationships, managements, and feedbacks with them. Moreover, how my preferred style will affect the way I receive feedback and information from my subordinates. Coping behavior is the mechanism that will reduce or eliminate conflicts that can potentially arise between my Airmen and me. Additionally, I think it is also

There are many definitions of what constitutes an adaptation and a great debate amongst many famous biologists and philosophers, each championing their own definition of adaptation. Historical definitions include the ‘design’ oriented approach of Williams, who claims

This week I found that talking about evolution was actually interesting. There are multiple explanations on what people think evolution is and I think it was interesting to look at all the misconceptions of it. Something that intrigued me was that natural selection leads to adaption, not organisms “trying” to adapt. When my group answered this question on the card, I did not even realize that as humans we do not try to adapt because adaptation just happens. It is important for people to know that natural selection involves the adaptation of everything around us, but we do not try to adapt to the situation. The process of natural selection does not involve trying to adapt, but leads to adaptation itself.

What does it mean to adapt to an environment? To adapt to an environment means to adjust or get used to the current situation. People usually need to adjust to their environment to make life easier and take a burden off of others, even if it isn't always the easiest way.

Throughout time, the world has continually changed. Not only have humans adapted to the changing environment, they have altered the environment for their benefit. These alterations took place due to humans ability to innovate. According to Webster's 1828 Dictionary of the English Language the definition of innovate is: "To change or alter by introducing something new". The 1828 dictionary may be outdated, but I believe it provides the most useful definition for the context of this article.

Evolution is the process of change that occurs in the traits of a population of a species over many years. At the molecular level, dissimilarities of an individual’s genes, known as the genotype, result in the change of their physical characteristics, or phenotype. There are three main driving forces that trigger evolution in a population. Those three include: natural selection, change in the gene pool through mating, and genetic variation between individual species. In this work, I will be explaining how environmental factors, such as climate change, causes individual species to experience these three factors and eventually result in evolution and the development of traits that will help them adapt to their habitat.

Vertebrates are chordates, from the subphylum Vertebrata, are continually evolving. Sometimes evolution and adaptation are easily confused with each other. Evolution is changes in traits of a whole population. Overtime populations, not individual organisms, evolve. Survival is important to all vertebrates and adaptation helps vertebrates survive. Adaptation is a structural difference to make it better for a species to live in and to improve the species’ survival and reproductive rates. Adaptation essentially has three meanings. The first meaning of adaptation has to do with animals physiologically, which means that vertebrates adjust to its environment immediately (Gittleman, 2010). The second meaning of adaptation focuses on the progression on how vertebrate becomes adapted (Gittleman, 2010). The third meaning of adaptation focuses on how vertebrates evolved via natural selection over time (Gittleman, 2010).

Evolution is the process by which the majority of different kinds of living organisms are presumed to have developed and differentiated from earlier forms during the history of the earth. It is described as a variation of an organism to allow it to adapt to a new surrounding. The change is often very significant that a new species is formed (Scott,2014). As scientists engrossed in the theory of evolution, speculations about animals started to get involved. Camels are seemingly obvious examples that evolution occurred. Features that have captivated scientist to examine the camel include their long eyelashes, ability to close their nostrils, long & strong legs, thick fur & under-wool, thick leather-like patches just below the knees and the fat stored in their humps (Jason C. Chavis. 2010).