Evolution With Embryology

Over the past few centuries, humans have been questioning and debating over what makes evolution true. In Jerry Coyne’s work, Why Evolution is True, he noted two kinds of evidence from Darwin’s theory of evolution. The first evidence includes the six testable predictions of evolution: evolution, gradualism, speciation, common-ancestry, natural selection, and nonselective mechanisms of evolutionary change. The second evidence that Coyne noted in his work is the retrodiction. In Coyne’s work, Why Evolution is True, a retrodiction is the facts and data that are not necessarily predicted by the theory of evolution but it makes sense only in the light of the theory of evolution. Retrodiction uses present theories to explain events that happens in the past. Since evolution is a slow process, theories could not be tested. Therefore, we explain the existence of vestigial structures and how humans share a common ancestor with fish through the theory of evolution. Throughout the text, examples of retrodiction are the imperfect adaptation of a panda’s thumb and gill slits in the beginning stages of a human embryo. Common ancestry is proven by the existence of fossils and these evidences proves that evolution is true.

In Chapter 3: Remnants, Jerry Coyne takes another angle in explaining evolution, and he uses various examples to prove how remnants plays into the evolution theory. Those scientists find ways of connecting the smallest similarities to prove evolution, like vestiges organs. For Example, we see the evidence with ostriches’ wings, and various non-flying bird that lost the use of this vestigial trait. By using the embryo and bad design to further prove evolution, Jerry presents a very compelling argument since, the following chapters explained evolution and the uses of fossils to verify evidence; during, Chapter 3 Jerry Coyne, uses vestiges, embryos, and bad design as proof for the evidence of evolution.

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The late Stephen Jay Gould, a noted paleontologist who once described himself as an “agnostic leaning towards atheism,” wrote the classic treatise Evolution as Fact and Theory for Discover magazine back in 1981. His distinguished career and scientific achievements did earn him respect amongst his peers, but to the general public he is best known for his popular science writings and, to smaller circles, as a champion of evolution. As his treatise was written for a non-academic, science themed magazine, a basic understanding of science, and specifically evolutionary mechanics, was assumed of his audience. The treatise itself is on the often overlapping distinction between “theory” and “fact”; two words, he asserts, that creationists

What do a sponge and bird have in common? Believe it or not, they share a common origin. In the film, "Darwin 's Tree of Life," the narrator, David Attenborough, presents the audience with the theory of evolution as documented by Charles Darwin in the 1800 's. The video is based on Darwin 's perspective of evolution and natural selection. Darwin 's findings were revolutionary and caused out-rage among the religious who believed in the story of creation beginning with Adam and Eve. In the video, "Darwin 's Tree of Life," Darwin 's theory of evolution and natural selection proved the tree of life explains our evolution from a molecule to mammal.

Without evolution, and the constant ever changing environment, the complexity of living organisms would not be as it is. Evolution is defined as a process that results in heritable changes in a population spread over many generations (8).Scientists believe in the theory of evolution. This belief is based on scientific evidence that corroborates the theory of evolution. In Figure 1 the pictures of the skulls depict the sequence of the evolution of Homo-sapiens. As the figure shows, man has evolved from our common ancestor that is shared by homo-sapiens. The change of diet of homo-sapiens over time has thought to contribute to the change in jaw structure and overall skull shape.

Evolution is the change of traits of a species over several generations. A famous biologist named Charles Darwin, theorized that evolution happens by natural selection. Many people believe that evolution requires millions of years but scientists believe that evolution can occur rather quickly. In Today’s world, we have better health care, food, shelter and hygiene. Some might question if our advanced medicine and technology can lead to a stop in evolution, but in fact we are still evolving according to some scientists (Neild). There has been much debate and controversy over this statement but there is no concrete proof to say that humans are not evolving. In fact, there is evidence that evolution is happening at this very moment. For example,

A common misconception about evolution is that it results in organisms that are perfectly suited to their environments. In fact, there are many limitations to evolution that keep it from producing perfect traits.

What made thing's the way they are today? How did we become the dominant species on this planet? For thousand's of years we have been trying to discover answers to questions like these. Scientists went hard at work to discover new things about the origins of our species. The theories of evolution theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.(Britannica) Understanding our origins can allow us to understand why the world around us is the way it is. According to Websters, Evolution is defined as

The battle of creationism and evolutionary theory is not a new one. That being said, in order to understand whether creationism has a place in secondary education, one must first understand the complexity of the matter. Evolution in itself is a theory proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859. Grossly simplified, the theory states that life evolved from non-life; the concept of descent with modification. This theory arouses conflict because many Christians believe that it negates the literal interpretation of the biblical creation story. It is from this story that the theory of creationism began. While some may argue that creationism deserves to be taught alongside evolutionary theory within the science curriculum of secondary schools of a municipality or state, these individuals are mistaken. Creationism is not a science, therefore by teaching it one violates the first amendment and also further develops the religious inequality that its supporters argue teaching it creates. There is no place for creationism in the science curriculum within secondary public education.

First, the publishing of this book was only the beginning of an endless argument between two ideology, evolutionism and creationism. Human is coming from a long evolutionary system instead to be a divine creation. The credibility of the church was shaken when more and more people agreed with Darwin’s conception of human’s origin. Second, scientific research’s that lead to the creation of the evolutionist theory were very complex and were an enormous progress in the study of humans and animals. Third, progress were made in the domain of embryology and Darwins discovered the concept of vestigial organs.

Involving parents is a positive level and essential to ensuring academic success. Family engagement confers benefits to all students, those with disabilities often require more parental involvement to be assured of receiving the same level of instruction as the general student population. Children with disabilities often face multifaceted classroom challenges requiring special attention from instructors and active engagement from their families. Who’s playing several supporting roles, as advocates and as people who can provide valuable insight into their specific needs of instructors

These seven organisms are organized in this way because I believe that these organisms evolved over the time. There are a lot differences that every organism had. For instance, all of these organisms are Eukaryotes, they developed over time and evolved over time due to environmental effects and genetic evolvement. For that, they developed and apparently have different shapes and sizes. Amoeba evolved such that it evolved and shaped a fish. It began as a unicellular organism but then became a multicellular organism that evolved all over again and again till it shaped the fish with fins, gills, eyes and gills.

Grouping of organisms according to the similar anatomy helps to understand their evolution and how those organisms have being developed over millions of years. Similarly, structures of organisms have developed over years to function better to survive on the earth. Even though some organisms are unicellular, while some are multicelliular, both types of organisms have got particular structure to function that helps to fulfill their needs. Thus, structure and function of the organisms, including humans, portray the incredible creations of the nature (Campbell et al. 2008).

Evolution is the modification of characteristics of living organisms over generations (StrangeScience.net, 2015); it is the gradual process of development by which the present diversity of living organisms arose from the earliest forms of life, which is believed to have been ongoing for at least the past 3000 million years (Hine, 2004). Common ancestry are groups of living organisms that share the most recent common ancestor, by which scientific evidence proves that all life on Earth are descendants from the previous universal ancestor (DarwinWasRight.org, 2015). Additionally, opposing theories against Evolution, primarily the Christianity religion, explain that God is the ‘creator’ and is the source of all existence.