Ella Aerts Period 5 Your Inner Fish Discussion Answers Chapter 1 - Finding Your Inner Fish Neil and his colleagues focused on rocks from 375 million years ago because fossils from 360 million years ago were amphibians with necks and four legs. However rocks that are 380 million years old looked more like fish we know today, with fins and scale. So, it made sense that they would find the transitioning fossils in rocks that was 375 million years old.
Thus, it proves itself as legitimate by conforming to its own process and establishes its clear, lasting impact on the fields it touched. In fact, Fuller’s organization of his presentation of evolution lends credence to the theory itself for this reason, making the layout of his book incredibly effective in substantiating its central claim. Additionally, his framework offers him some leeway in creating a narrative worth consumption; by using this outline, he is able to write a story rather than just compile a list of bland facts as many less effective historical writings often
Lumpy slimy things. And fish are so cold and unfriendly. They never talk to any of us”’(Bunting 17). Life goes on as usual, however now, there are no birds to sing, no squirrels to chatter, no frogs to croak, or any fish to
For instance, bears have evolved from scary animals that humans feared, to cuddly “teddy bears”. Some may ask how or why this is the case and there are certainly piles of evidence to support this statement. To begin, the bear itself was turned into a “teddy bear” named after Teddy Roosevelt because he could not shoot a bear. In this book, a man named Kelsey Eliasson was “turned off by the way he saw activists like Polar Bears International “Disney-fying” the bear”.
People today look for solid evidence to explain their wonderings about natural phenomena “Those with a magnitude higher than 7.0 -- more than doubled in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the average since 1979” (Yan 2). This shows how we rely on evidence to explain what is happening to the planet. Whereas the Greeks in 700 B.C.E. looked towards religion to find a
Bless Me, Ultima Spring Essay The golden carp “made me shiver . . . the roots of everything I had ever believed in seemed shaken. If the golden carp was a god, who was the man on the cross? The Virgen?”
Over the eras, many scientists have expressed concerns with Darwin's evolution theory and in "Was Darwin Wrong?" by David Quammen one can learn about the proof behind the theory of evolution. Many people do not believe in evolution due to an overall unawareness about the theory and religious upbringing. However, Quammen clarifies the truth behind evolution in his article. The article states five positions of evidence biogeography, embryology, morphology, paleontology, and the bacterial resistance to antibiotics discovered in humans.
The Scopes Trial began on July 10th, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee when John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching the theory of evolution in his class by saying men have descended from apes claiming that was the theory of evolution. The prosecuting attorney William Bryant was flooded with questions from the bible by defending attorney Clarence Darrow, several he could not answer. William Bryant, a Christian, could not defend the Bible nor his beliefs and the point of being a certain religion is to understand what you believe and why you believe it. Furthermore, what makes this trial significant is that till this day we still have that debate of how were we created, whether it’s from the religion we possess or from
Finally, it was possible to examine that the shark confounded for a fish a man 's foot or calf. The wading caused by walking, the lower limbs may have simulated fish
The Truth Behind the Rhetoric of Carl Sagan One of the largest debates known to modern man is that between creationists and evolutionists. Is human existence evidence of a divine power? Did humankind reach its current state on the reliance of genetic mistakes? Is it of any concern to know one way or another? In his insightful essay, “Do we care what’s true?
“Scientist: 'We Didn't Create Life from Scratch'.” CNN, Cable News Network, 21 May 2010,
These slideshows helped me understand the four questions I asked during them. The first question was what do all life forms have in common?. The second question I am asking myself while I watch the presentations is why does Earth contain such diverse life forms?. Third question is what does tracing an organism’s ancestry tell us about it?. My fourth and final question is does evolution follow a pattern?.
In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” a fisherman catches an imposing fish. As the fisherman holds the magnificent creature out of the water with his/her ‘hook fast in the corner of the fish’s mouth,’ he/she begins to admire the fish for having obviously fought long and hard all its life (Bishop 3). In a sense, the speaker compares the fish to a war veteran who had seen one too many battles. On at least five occasions, five other fishermen had attempted to reel-in the beast given the “five old pieces of fish line” and “their five big hooks” embedded in its mouth (Bishop 51). Bearing this in mind, the speaker thinks of the fish-line and hooks as battle-scars and consequently, looks upon the fish as a skilled survivor rather than a regular,
The Cambrian explosion argues against Darwin’s theory of natural selection. It
The second group, the tilapiines, consists of the only substrate-spawning species in the lake (Tilapia rendalli), and four species of chambo
