Survival And Self Preservation : The Bee Flies

Often times, the role that a simple bee plays in our environment is ignored or trivialized by the general public. Contrary to this delusion, bees are an extremely important factor in balancing ecosystems around the world. With such an invaluable role, their extinction could have unthinkable repercussions.

“People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. I don’t doubt he started off loving your mother. In fact, I think he worshipped her” (Kidd, 248). Towards the beginning of the book, The Secret Life of Bees, T. Ray was perceived as an unsympathetic character. He would order Lily to do things around the house, and if she ever did anything wrong, he would either beat her or make her kneel on grits which is supposed to be very painful. Although his character is not the best readers can begin to understand why T. Ray turned out to be what he was. Deborah, T. Ray’s wife, ran away from him because she did not love him as much as he loved her. Also, T. Ray was forced to take care of their daughter, Lily, who reminded him every day of Deborah because Lily was the spitting image of her. Alongside that, Lily runs away from T. Ray, which makes him realize what he has been doing to her. Despite the fact that T. Ray treated Lily horribly, one would view

The reading passage argues that the nest fossil, dated 200 million years ago, found in the state of Arizona has no relation with did bees and provides three reasons to advocate this theory. However, the professor found this argument by the passage unconvincing and repudiates all three reasons.

In October 2006, U.S. beekeeper David Hackenberg discovered that about 400 of his bees out of his 3,000 hives had completely disappeared. No bees were found dead inside or outside of their hives, they had just simply disappeared. Now this disappearance was not due to some funny magic trick, but still the questions remained, where did the bees go and what happened to them that caused them to leave? Over the last decade “this sudden diminution of bee colonies has been brought to the forefront of people’s minds and surpassed the realm of beekeepers, academia, industry and regulatory agencies and now encompasses non-governmental agencies, media, fiction writers, and the general public” (Barbosa 1049). This however, does not answer the ongoing question

Looking at the animal kingdom, ants live in societies that are organized on a caste system whereby ants with different responsibilities differ physiologically from the others. The differences eliminate the element of selfishness since each ant depends on the other for survival; aspect scientists believe that humans would not survive if they were an altruistic society (Colman, 2007). Human beings have always been known to set personal goals with the aim of surviving, although the means of achieving the goals are selfishness and the lack of appreciation towards other people. For an individual to survive, the person must be strong both physically and mentally depending on the environment. The process of evolution in most cases is slow but gradual, resulting in a manner that enhances survival of a

An oxymoron appeared to exist between Darwin’s theory of natural selection (1859) and the definition of altruism (West et al., 2006). Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness (1964) appeared to mediate this problem. However, the theory does not explain altruistic acts towards non-kin in line with natural selection. Reciprocal altruism (Trivers, 1971), indirect altruism (Alexander, 1987) and strong reciprocity (Gintis, 2000) have been proposed to resolve this conflict. It is of note that behaviour in all theories has been noted in animals, but will not be discussed further. Instead, the essay will focus on which theories are most relevant when understanding human sociality, with the author explaining why no sole theory is seen to describe the phenomenon. All theories will be discussed in relation to evolutionary stable strategies (ESS), which refers to plans that when adopted by a majority of members in a population that restrict any other action existing, which could yield higher reproductive success (Smith & Price, 1973).

To become more effective givers, Mr. Adam grant cited setting appropriate boundaries, paying it forward and trusting most of the people most of the time. In setting appropriate boundaries, people must consider how they give and how to protect their own motivation and opportunity. Givers who extend help to others have the expectation that they too will also assist those in need in the future, this is how the community of givers is created; it grows and expand, and it is how paying it forward goes on. Trusting most of the people most of the time happens when givers who are more effective are sensitive to indications in their environment that may indicate a ‘taker’ personality. Being less giving and less trusting with these individuals will be crucial to protecting themselves. The fear of being taken advantage of by takers and how others may manipulate people make givers do better in assessing whether someone is a taker or a matcher; this will reduce the giving part that will help us and others succeed. “Do good now, continue to do good over time, and eventually your virtue will be rewarded.”

As stated by Grant, “"Across occupations, it appears that givers are just too caring, too trusting and too willing to sacrifice their own interests for the benefit of others.”. Contrary to this belief, is the fact that is also givers who are consistently highly ranked in their respective fields. Takers do tend to do better in the short term. But in the longer run, the givers typically succeed. This could be due a variety of reasons including their networking skills, collaboration and their goal being result oriented and not on benefits for self.

Sex is a very awkward subject to talk about especially for parents to their children, as it brings up thoughts and topics over raging hormones and actions. Ever since humans have evolved through time, sex has been imperative to survival by sharing various genetics, skills, and traits from both parties. Seems easy enough? Not necessarily. Even if parents do use the classic ‘birds and the bees’ analogy for discuss this scandalous subject, children are still curious about how it works and wish to explore it for themselves. During the Victorian era, women became more open with sexuality. Such misconceptions like masturbation stunting growth and making one crazy as well as uterine suction preventing rape were also developed as a result of the time period. However, despite their openness, this period also pushed women to be delicate and submissive towards their partner .

The bees are an essential part of our everyday lives here on earth. The extinction of would mean the end of life as we know it. Extinction of bees=extinction of the habitat destroying, globe warming, natural resource depleting humans. The bees are critical pollinators: theypollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. So if we lose the bees, we may loseallof the plantsthat bees pollinate, andallof the animalsthat eat those plants, it would affect the whole food chain.So I’m sure you’re wondering why the bees are endangered and on the brink of extinction, well as I said before, it has a lot to do with humans and habitat loss (i.e.places to nest and the right flowers to feed from), pesticide use, climate change, introducing species, and from pathogens. Law states that “in

Bees are an important part of the ecosystem. They help pollinate plants. However, if your yard is infested with bees, then you may find yourself getting stung frequently. You may also find that you cannot comfortably spend time in your own yard.

Peter Kropotkin has an anarchist viewpoint about the way human nature behaves. His theory Mutual Aid states that we grow and prosper through cooperation and from the general means of helping one another together (mutual aid and mutual support). Kropotkin believes that our best chances of survival will occur if there is an elimination of competition. Although life is hard, he believes you can get a keen sense of joy with minimal efforts, if an individual were to participate in mutual aid. Examples are demonstrated in the animal kingdom; ants work together to store food and birds come together to migrate south for the winters. Kropotkin did not see a reason in competition, he thought that it was only injurious to human beings and the others around them. With the amount of resources nature offers there should be no use of fighting for it, “the tendency of nature, not always realized in full, but always

First, it is important to understand what altruism is. Altruism is any act carried out by an individual in order to benefit another individual. [1, 2] At first glance,

Introduction Adaptation is an evolutionary process in which the organism (or species) adapts itself to external conditions and other factors that are in the area of its occurrence. Thanks to the adaptation enabled by natural selection, there are useful (but not purposeful) properties. Thus, biological evolution differs greatly from other forms of evolution. Natural selection is "able" to choose from those randomly generated mutations those that are convenient and useful. Adaptation is often thought of as adopting new evolutionary strategies and passing through genetic mutations into new forms. Honey Bees are flying insects who live on nectar and pollen. According to Honeybee center (n.d.); “Bees have a long, straw-like tongue called a probiscus that allows them to drink the nectar form deep within blossoms” (para. 2). Hummingbirds are visually distinct in size, the smallest representative of the whole family, the smallest calypte, is also the smallest bird of the world, the largest representative is the big hummingbird. Mostly they are strikingly colored, slender birds with small limbs. With the exception of insects, hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of all animal species. The reason is especially fast and very heavy wearing of wings for the body. They live mainly in the nectar of plants, which is helped by their long beak, which is often different in different species and specialized for a certain kind of flower. In food, it completely rejects nectar with a lower

It is argued that humans are a cooperating species and that cooperation is not just a by-product of competition but cooperation is inherent in humans,