Summary Of How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution

Over the millions of years organisms have been present on earth, there has been many forms of evidence to suggest animals are evolving through natural selection. However, the question still remains as to whether homo sapiens are still evolving through natural selection. Through the nature of science being subject to change and many new discoveries being made each day, it is difficult to make clear confined theories and conclusions, which will not be impacted on in the future.

You cannot tell which one is which, as they all look to be average. But then you see the identical ones, the ones with technology infused artificial joints, or the ones whom poses a slight fluorescent skin. And by the time you notice it, they are everywhere and you are the only true “human” left. As time reaches further, we find ourselves living in the new age of technology, political rivalries, and weapons of mass destruction that are no longer radical cartoonists ideas from the television series Roadrunner. This upward rollercoaster of evolution and development within our society leaves one to ponder over one crucial thing: how will it all come crashing down? There are many elements around us that could lead to our own horrifying conclusion and it becomes a simple coin toss to decide our fate. But as many scientistic developments and fictional novels have foretold, the desperate search for the advancement of the human race itself can come as glimpse into the mystic future or possibly the end of us completely. Genetic mutations, at first a simple random mole found of the exterior of the body and the shade of blue of one’s eye seem to be innocent developments in human appearance, but has soon evolved into a evolution shortcut. The increasing development and advancement in genetic research and deliberate mutation originates from the eternal and illusionistic desire for human perfection.

“Unintelligent Design: The Scars of Human Evolution,” a play on words of “Intelligent Design,” the theory that some higher power or entity created the universe instead of by chance, is part of an ongoing series from Boston University 's Anthropology Dialogues. In this particular podcast, topics such as wisdom tooth impaction, a comparison of Oscar Pistorius ' prosthetic legs and the advantages it has over human feet, and pelvis morphology and how it relates to childbirth are discussed. In particular, Dr. Rosenberg 's preliminary short statement; “Laboring Humans: Giving Birth to Large-Brained, Large, Helpless Babies,” brought up childbirth and the many risks associated with it. Rosenberg compared and contrasted how humans gave birth and how primates gave birth. Primates, like gorillas, give birth in isolation, without the help of others and distancing themselves from other members of their bands. Humans, on the other hand, give birth with family and medical professionals surrounding them (at least, in the Western world it is). It should be noted, however, that gorillas are quadrupedal and have a wider birth canal than humans do; since our pelvis ' had to accommodate our bipedality.

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish Naturalist, He set up the system of assigning animals species names in latin (pg. 2). He also assigned them genus’s, families, and kingdoms. This gave other scientist a common language to use when talking about animals and in turn helped Charles Darwin with his examples and gave a general idea that all animals are connected in a way. Carl also inspired many future scientist’s to travel the globe including Charles Darwin. But Charles didn’t just form this earth shaking theory of evolution by looking at others work he actually explored places and observed the many animals there. On December 27, 1831 Charles Darwin began his scientific voyage that would ultimately change the world upon a ship called the “beagle”, the beagle 's voyage lasted almost five years. Darwin was on land most of this journey; investigating geology, and making natural history collections, while the beagle was mapping and charting the coast. In 1835 the beagle was charting the coasts of the Galapagos islands, during that time Darwin was on the islands. While Darwin was on the islands he noticed that there was a species of birds called the finch on all the islands. The thing about these birds was that they were all the same species, but on each island they had different sizes and shapes of beaks. Charles was baffled at such a discovery. How could Finches of the same species have such vastly

Human Origin has been an argument that I have heard about when I was in public school. I learned about evolution at school and creation at home. I was never able to really argue for creation until coming to Southeastern University. I also never paid attention in class when we were learning about evolution because I knew that I did not believe it. Learning a lot in this class and others, now I believe that I would be able to start a conversation with people who believe in evolution and be able to stand up for what I believe in.

Evolution refers to the process where living things’ behavioural and physical characteristics change over a particularly long period. As a theory first formulated by Charles Darwin in 1859, he explains the process of change that organisms go through in order to survive and better adapt to the areas they live in. Charles Darwin 's theory has been widely accepted now, but it hasn 't steered away from controversy particularly with regards to religion and the opposing perspective it puts across. Despite the backlash and attacks, the theory provided the basis for a lot of research and insight into evolution, and the amount of evidence available today is impossible to acknowledge (Costa 2009 p. 890). It has been shown by numerous

Evolution is change over time. Human evolution is a long process of change. Scientific evidence shows that our physical and behavioral traits shared everyone on this planted originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a long period. Human evolution has been going on for over 6 million years according to scientist.

Evolution is the change of an organism, over time the organism have change to be more adapted to the environment that they are surrounded in order to live. By evolve that mean that their structure will change, for an example, their skeleton structure however the ancestor skeleton structure are some what similar to the more recent organisms. For instant, fossil is a great example for evolution, fossil is the remains of organisms that use to be alive, when scientist examine the fossil they found that there are similarities between related living organism. There are other evidence for evolution which are homologous structures, analogous structures, and vestigial structures. Homologous is when it have a similar structure but different

When we think about the evolution of modern humans we think about two basic theories. The first theory is the “Multiregional Variation theory which is the different human populations or cultures had independent origins and are evolved in isolation from one another. The second theory is the “Out of Africa “theory. This theory is basically when humans evolved in Africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. After these humans evolved they left Africa after evolving. Both of these theories both support and have evidence about human evolution beginning in Africa.

Homo Sapiens as the species to which all modern human beings belong and is the only one from genus Homo that is not extinct.

The debate of human evolution being fact or fiction has been around for hundreds of years. Evidence of human ancestry has been found in many parts of the world and these fossils found have been proven to be human. The parts of the world include Eurasia and Africa. Although fossils are found in Eurasia, the human ancestor the Hominoidea has been traced back to the Miocene epochs, which were 23 to 5 million years ago. The Hominoidea is a super-family, which contains many species that are existent today including, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzee, and humans. Throughout history humans have migrated and evolved, as evolution occurred humans became more technologically advanced, while the other species in Hominoidea remained the same.

Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, wisely stated, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” This statement directly reflects my opinion on the theory of evolution and that of Charles Darwin. Our species has evolved over time and adapted to the conditions that faced us. Charles Darwin, his background and discoveries, along with the evolution of human beings over time prove with great detail just how necessary and realistic evolution is. In most cases, the argument about evolution brings up one’s religious values. However, the clear science behind the many theories of evolution outweighs and all religious arguments about this topic. Humans, and many other species, have distinct connections to the organisms of our past and will continue to change in order to for the future of our civilization.

Natural selection is a cornerstone of the theory of evolution, although many experts would agree that it is no longer viewed the same way that natural selection was originally theorized. Ultimately, it’s the concept of phenotypic differences in various living organisms determining (to a very debatable extent) which organisms survive and reproduce. For most living organisms on this planet, the proliferation of human existence has greatly impacted the scheme of natural selection however. Human beings pollute exponentially more than any other species on the planet and significantly change virtually every environment in the world gradually; consequently, the rules of natural selection for most of the world are determined by human existence itself.

Through research it has been determined that evolution is a part of nature, and organisms become more complex over time. As organisms become more complex their characteristics begin to change, and aspects that are beneficial for their survival become prominent in their offspring. However, characteristics that are not beneficial to their survival begins to fade as organism evolve. From this arise Charles Darwin’s theory that evolution occurs because of natural selection, expressing that organisms with the best characters will have a higher survival rates and have the ability to pass these characteristics to their offsprings.

The human species have been able to overcome many obstacles. The key to man’s success is based off its ability to adapt. These instincts helped them to survive the perilous ice age. Homo Sapiens learned how to change and adjust to severe climates. Man’s mobility and adaptability were the two features that kept the early man alive. Many people say, “The fact that these early hominids survived at all was a miracle”. Within these hospitable conditions, it was their ultimate survival weapon to preserve. Without this trait, man would have become completely extinct.