History of evolutionary thought

Feminism in Evolution” Feminism remains a hot button issue within our society. Feminist theory and Evolutionary Psychology (EP) have long been at odds with each other, particularly on issues such as gender equality and rape. One argues from a social standpoint, and the other from a purely scientific understanding. Neither viewpoint is necessarily wrong, but it would be much better if EP and feminist theory could find common ground. Men and women do think and mate differently, as men and women have

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who was born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809. He was the second youngest of six children. Before Charles Darwin, there were many scientists throughout his family. His father, Dr. Robert Darwin, was a medical doctor, and his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, was a well-known botanist. Darwin’s mother, Susannah Darwin, died when he was only eight years old. Darwin was a child that came from wealth and privilege and who loved to explore nature

The belief that various living organisms emerged from previous organisms throughout the history of the earth can be associated with the term evolution. One can therefore assume that there is a vast likelihood that prehistoric evolutionary processes have a significant impact on human behavior today. This paper hypothesizes that the human mind has information-processing mechanisms that are known as adaptions which have developed over time. It is believed that these adaptions were formed by natural

are considered to be evolutionary markers that records a lineages of creatures across time — providing a distinct way to compare different species. When Darwin set forth on a journey to the Galapagos Islands, he discovered many aspects of evolution. During his expedition, he discovered the fossils of creatures which closely resembled the modern armadillos. At that time, Darwin did not possess any tools or resources to predict the phylogenetic lineages and the evolutionary history of the armadillos.

views; that of the British anthropologist Edward Tylor who viewed studying the history culture as a holistic, evolutionary process and of Franz Boas, a German anthropologist who advocated culture as being a development through looking at the specific historical context of a certain society. Despite having opposing views on the issue, both Tylor and Boas became heavily influential in their fields, with Tylor’s evolutionary theories being used and developed by the likes of Darwin and Boas becoming a

American anthropologists are more related to how and why that culture changed with a specific end goal to reproduce the history. The entire problem of cultural history comes out of us as a historical problem. According to the Boas '' In order to understand history, it is necessary to know not only how things are, but how they have come to be'' (Boas: 120). As far as the field of ethnology in the majority parts of the world, historical data

lens, but has religion become completely obsolete? Does spirituality have a real place amongst the scientific tenets of evolutionary theory, or is it merely a crutch that we lean on? Can God and Darwin co-exist? The constantly mounting collection of evidence for evolution by natural selection is almost impossible to ignore. However, there is a neo-creationist school of thought, called "intelligent design," attempting to modernize the concept of a God to fit the challenge

There are many specific tools available to help understand evolutionary theory in a biology context, but not for an archaeological context “Applications of evolutionary tools outside biology raise methodological problems which have been largely ignored by philosophers of science.” (Houkes 2010: 3) This has recently changed as archaeologists have started to manipulate these applications for the use in an archaeological context “archaeologists and anthropologists have recently started using phylogenetic

examines how biologists use phylogeny to reconstruct the deep past. evolutionary reversal theory is an important to relates ancestral between this organism and others. These organisms are monotreme, and in fact, modern monotremes are the survivors of an early branching of the mammal tree, and a later branching is thought to have led to the marsupial and placental groups. The extinct monotremes Teinolophos and Steropodon were once thought to be a closely related to this organism. Because of the early divergence

In her book, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry states that "beauty incites replication" (4). Like a history of evolution, a history of human symbolic representation is heavily dependent on the act of reproduction. This reproduction has manifested itself quite literally. For example, when a painter finds something in nature to be beautiful, she can reproduce it on the