Throughout the years, many unknown questions have been answered through the use of science. The atomic bomb, which ended World War II, was explored through physics, and other discoveries such as the atom, DNA, and photosynthesis have facilitated technological advancements for society. While all typ...

Human Biology and EvolutionHumans are AliveThe earliest human life form can be traced back more than 3.5 billion years ago. Humans are said to be descendants of a single celled ancestor. Although they are different in size and shape all basic functions are alike. The more complex the organization of...

The article, "The Biologist Who Extends Life Spans", is an interview with biologist Cynthia Kenyon on the subject of extending life spans. She has extended the life span of nematodes, as they had lived for more than 125 days, about six times more than the usual life span of the worms, whic...

Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, revolutionized biology with histheory of evolution through the process of natural selection. Herbert Spencerwas the major philosopher of biological and social evolution. Spencer's worksignificantly influenced 19th century developments in biology, psychology,so...

More than 130 million persons in the United States and Canada and millions more on all continents enjoy hunting, viewing, and feeding wildlife, according to a survey reported by the Wildlife Society, the organization for professionals (Odom 108). Commercial trapping (and its counterpart, commercial ...

Carl Linnaeus was a scientific mastermind, still driven by his religious beliefs but intelligent enough not to let them stand in the way of what his findings were showing. Linnaeus was a botanist, a physician, and most importantly the founder of taxonomy. Throughout the course of his life he would ...

LIFE The greater mankind's knowledge becomes, the harder it is to define the idea of life. This difficulty is curious since almost all human beings fell that they know, without any ambiguity, the difference between something alive and something dead. However, our advancing knowledge tells ...

Recently, we have all seen the controversy over whether or not we should attempt to clone. If you haven\'t heard: A group of scientists in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep cloned from embryonic cells, presaging Dolly. Dolly\'s was the birth heard round the world. The first mammal ever cloned...

Evolution is the change in a gene pool of a population over time. It is the theory that groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection, so that descendants differ from their ancestors. In order for this theory to hold true, some things must be observed. F...

Australia has an alarming amount of endangered and extinct species compared to the rest of the world. Biologists have listed all plants and animals that they know are at risk of extinction in Australia. These are called endangered species. The list includes 10 species of fish, 12 frogs, 13 reptiles...

Me EssayHello my name is __________________; I'm currently a twelve grader. Throughout my life I have enjoyed looking at the stars and sunsets but due to Southern Californian smog the skies have been hindered by the increasing smog, thus showing nothing but a few mere stars. But I travel a lot so...

Many factors contribute to the idea of gradual speciation, but all fall under the same theory of evolution. Webster defines evolution as \"the theory that groups of organisms change drastically and smoothly with time, mainly as a result of natural selection or chance, so that descendants differ morp...

Many factors contribute to the idea of gradual speciation, but all fall under the same theory of evolution. Webster defines evolution as \"the theory that groups of organisms change drastically and smoothly with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection or chance, so that descendants ...

Jean Baptiste LamarckThe French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck pronounced the first comprehensive theory of evolution in the beginnings of the 19th century. His theory, the theory of acquired characteristics, had three parts and is as follows:1)Theory of need- the production of a new organ or part...

Reading over the original scientific study, we discover that the research team came to a rather important conclusion for the study of the development of biological species. Traditionally, it has been hypothesized that the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (the KT boundary) was the precipitating even that...

A Review of NATURALISTAs written by author Edward O. WilsonAs my first introduction into the memoir genre of literature, Naturalist was grand in its content, interesting, and thought provoking. The combination of anecdotes of early childhood and the complexity of bio-classification and biochemistry ...

Considered one of the most significant, influential, and controversial publications in history, this book, I felt would be interesting to read and learn from. Although his content in this particular book is the subject of much controversy, Darwin's proffesional contributions and accomplishments wil...

In this essay I will tell you about Gregor Mendel. I will tell you what he contributed to the study of heredity, when he conducted this work, if he relied on work or used any ideas from previous scientists, how their work impacted future scientists, and I will be telling you about any other interes...

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, is a scientific abstract about revolutionary ideas on evolution and the diversity of species from the evolutionary process. This book was originally a personal journal while Darwin was touring onboard the ship H.M.S. Beagle as the naturalist. The ship s...

Evolution, as stated in the text, is a change in the genetic structure of a species. For thousands of years during pre-scientific times the theory of evolution was non-existent. The understanding of the universe was based solely on the interpretation of supernatural concepts; God created Earth and m...

Before November 24, 1859, many people simply believed that species were created byGod in their present forms, or that it was possible for organic matter to be spawned frominorganic matter. However, Charles Darwin used these ideas to create his thesis, On theOrigin of Species by Means of Natural Sel...

Evolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more simpler forms. In o...

Few scientists have been as influential or as controversial as Charles Darwin has. He is considered by many to be the father of the theory of evolution. He knew that there was a great deal of variation among members of a species and that some of these variation made individuals more fit to survive...

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin poetically entailed, "There is grandeur in this view of life . . .." Personifying Nature as the ultimate breeder, Darwin infers and hypothesizes what is arguably the most fundamental and profound scientific manifesto that governs what we now know about moder...

Evolution has been knocked down for centuries, because of formal religion. Creationists won't concede that evolution has been an on-going process, because it contradicts the Bible. There are many who believe both sides of the argument; that is God did create the heavens and earth, and evolution ha...