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Fossils By Stephanie Wieczorek NSC003 Prof. Fossils are amazing how they are formed. The process is fossilization. I was surprised to discover that a series of mistakes must happen in order for a fossil to be cr...
Science in the United States prior to the Civil War was straggling to rise more than a few feet off the ground. Lacking positive support and participation, the few scientific organizations that were established failed to conform to newer thinking styles. With new scientific leaders, holding powerful...
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...
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Lucy was found by Donald C. Johanson Ph.D. and Tom Gray on November 30th1974, in the Hadar Region in Ethiopia and was named after the song "Lucy in the SkyWith Diamonds". She is special because she lived just less than 3.18 million years andbecause about 40% of her skeleton was found. Lucy walked on...
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...
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 Darwin first used the term natural selection in his book "The Origin of Species", which presented his distinctive views on evolution. Though the concept of evolution as such did not originate with Darwin, he was the first and most unswerving defender of the mechanism of natural selection, wh...
The late 19th and 20th centuries have seen advances in technology and scientific understanding the likes of which have not been seen before in such a short amount of time in known Human history. In the last hundred and fifty years science has advanced so much that one would barely recognize the life...
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 ...
Malthus and AfricaAfrica, being a third world country with much economic oppression, is currently being debated in the General Assembly about whether or not it should have population control. Many experts believe that, if not controlled, the rate of the increasing population of Africa will have dis...
Jurassic Park is divided into seven sections, each with a quote from Ian Malcolm. He was a mathematician who specialized in the field called chaos theory, which based itself mainly on nonlinear equations. The first section follows the paths of several scenes, where in each one, there is evidence poi...
Evolution vs. Intelligent DesignThe cosmos, whether you believe in Biblical Creation, evolution, or intelligent design is a very interesting subject. Creation, as documented in the Bible in Genesis 1:1 states that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It shows that God created ...
For almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his reader=s imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton=s writing stands out as much as his 6=9@ frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past three...
Diet and Primate EvolutionVariation in the choices of food on a daily, seasonal, and yearly basis is one of the greatest differences between primate species. Primate diets have generally been divided into three main food categories-fruit, leaves and fauna (including insects, spiders, and bird's egg...
As I was growing through my school years, the principle of evolution was presented as a fact. My teachers believed that it was the "only way it happened." I too was entrenched into this mode of thinking. How could all the knowing scientists, films, and textbooks be wrong? It did seem to explain ...