12 Results for geology

Three Branches of ScienceAndrew RamboMs. Gardener10th Grade BiologySeptember 11, 2000Science is such a wide area that it is divided into branches. Biology, chemistry and geology are three of these branches. Each branch of science are very different. They use many of the same techniques in the study...
Charles Lyell was born on November 14, 1797 in Scotland. He was born into a family that had obtained a lot of wealth and was immediately set into the "privileged" class. He was the eldest of 10 siblings and had access to an extensive library. He later attended Exeter College, Oxford at th...
Many things have been said about life, and many explanations have been made to try and explain this \"life\" and how it came into existence. About 150 years ago a man by the name of Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in an attempt to explain the world from a scientific perspective. Cha...
Stephen Jay Gould is professor of Geology at Harvard University, where his field of interest centers on the special evolutionary problems related to species of Bahamian snails – fortunately, that's not what his essay, Nonmoral Nature, is about. Gould has become well known for his essays o...
Charles Robert Darwin is considered one of the greatest scientific minds known to man. Darwin was born on February 17, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. He was an inventor of many theories and scintific studies during the 1800's. He created the thought of natural selection and evolution into human m...
Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was the first evolutionary biologist, and was the first person to start studying the evolution theory. His views were never accepted during his life and were often attacked at times. But Darwin wasn't one to stand down he defended his views no matter who was...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the debate over evolution versus intelligent design appears to be how two individuals can consider the exact same evidence – a beautiful sunset, for example, or a baby's laugh -- to arrive a diametrically opposite conclusions concerning how the worl...
Evolution of Genus GallotiaIntroduction:The definition of evolution is a genetic change in a population or species over generations. This is exactly what occurred in the case of genus Gallotia in the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands are made up of seven islands, named Lanzarote, Feurteventura, G...
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...
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...
Adam Dill OriginsCreationism vs. Evolution, the argument disputed by more scientists, more paleontologists and more everyday people than probably any other argument since the dawn of man. Who is right? Do the theories and evidence of evolutionists have the right answers or do the faith and facts of ...
Adam Dill OriginsCreationism vs. Evolution, the argument disputed by more scientists, more paleontologists and more everyday people than probably any other argument since the dawn of man. Who is right? Do the theories and evidence of evolutionists have the right answers or do the faith and facts of ...