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The NOVA special “Intelligent Design on Trial” featured a re-enactment of the controversial 2005 federal court trial that separated the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a battle over evolution versus intelligent design. The Dover school board required science teachers to read a one minute statement that proposed an alternative to Darwin’s theory which included the interference of an intelligent agent because life is too complex to evolve naturally (1). There were many opposing ideas and concerns

"The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," by Elizabeth Kolbert, explores previous cases of mass extinction throughout history, and how they translate to present time. The novel begins with the in-depth investigation within specific species and ecological events that have been negatively impacted by human intervention. Throughout the book, Kolbert continues this argument by reviewing Earth's environmental and biological aspects and how they are changing the world as well as its inhabitants. She

La Brea Tar Pits Introduction The La Brea tar pits have been well-known for over a century. Before the rise of European settlers, local Indian tribes used the tar to caulk canoes and waterproof tents. As the Industrial Revolution took off the early 1900s, the tar pits attracted oil men, as asphaltum is often associated with petroleum. Then, [w]hen W. W. Orcutt, the original organizer of the geological department of Union Oil of California, reexamined the area in 1901, he discovered "a vast

The Missouri State Museum provides an environment that can introduce diversity and cultural stimulation to children. The museum wants to be a part of the diverse team that provides support for families and staff aiding child development socially, emotionally as well as physically. Providing multicultural experiences and opportunities to teach children tolerance, respectfulness and accepting of differences is part of learning diversity. Diversity cannot be taught directly, it is not a part of a

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. By ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, HEATHER ANNE SWANSON, ELAINE GAN and NILS BUBANDT (Editors). (Minneapolis, London: University Of Minnesota Press, 2017. Pp. 368. Price £22.99.) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet… emerged as an outcome of an international and interdisciplinary conversation, which took place during the eponymous conference at the University of California in 2014. The book’s contributors unpack controversies

The third article will report on the research results of three planned seasons of fieldwork (either Spring/Summer or Fall 2018, 2019, and 2020) at the late Pleistocene paleontological site Chivacabe, Huehuetenango, Guatemala (Western Highlands), and will place it in the larger context of Paleoamerican activity within Middle America. In the 80s, non-prismatic obsidian artifacts, including a lanceolate fluted point (Figure…), were found at the site but without archaeological control. Interestingly

Dire Wolves Are Dire wolves mythical creatures? Dire Wolves existed many years ago and they were real, not just in the game of thrones. They were bigger than our everyday wolves. You can say they that they were different from our modern day wolves in many aspects, such as that they had a stronger bite and were more muscular. They no longer exist anymore due to extinction, a lot of there fossils were found in Canada and California. This is the main reason that we became to know of their existence

Name : _____Ashley Vernet_______ Chapter 17: Life on Earth Activity designed by Kathleen Rudolph Taxa to explore – Elephants!! 1. Review terms (write definitions for these terms) Extant Species, families, or groups still in existence Extinct Species, families, or groups no longer in existence, end or died out Genotype Genetic make-up of an organism Phenotype Physical attributes of an organism, observable or measurable traits Synapomorphy Shared characteristic that are inherited

Mammoths 10,000 years ago, when our ancestors were trying to survive the ice age, so too, were woolly Mammoths. Mammoths are ancient relatives to our modern day lovable elephants. Their habitat coexisted with our ancient ancestors, and many people believe that they are now extinct because of us. The animals we know as Mammoths (Mammuthus primogenus) are a species of ancient extinct elephant. Mammoth adults were about ten feet tall at the shoulder, with long tusks and a coat of long reddish or yellowish

cover. I think this color alone traces back to the Golden Frogs around El Valle that started to disappear. There is also an imagine of what looks like Mammoth bones. This relates to Cuvier’s discussion in the book of the extinction of Mammoths (or Mastodons). Many thought the animal remains were from two or three different animals. He argued, however, that the remains are from an entirely new species that is now