In his essay “GENETIC INTERVENTIONS AND THE ETHICS OF ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS” by Julian Savulescu, the author supports the belief that genetic enhancement will become a channel to improve the quality of human lives (Savulescu, 879). Savulescu begins by raising the question of whether or not we should use medical technology for more than just curing diseases by suggesting to improve human lives by interceding on a biological level. He states that it is a morally accepted practice to improve
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Evolution has always been a big question; it is said that we all started from one single ancestor but still unknown to it. When watching the film, it opened my eyes to transformation, I always believed animals came out of the water to explore but it says that they started as land mammals to water animals due to their hands/ find. I have never given much thought to how similar whales are compared to people. Whales having similar characteristic made me wonder how is that possible? Something that looks
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Introduction: Imagine a world with no cancer, no diseases, every child born perfectly healthy, and living hundreds of years. Seems impossible, right? This will become our future with a new gene editing technique called CRISPR/Cas-9. Although humans have been altering genes and DNA for many years, CRISPR/Cas9 will prove to be one of the most important innovations in American History because it will revolutionize medical treatments, allowing us to make "perfect" designer babies, and perhaps even enabling
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The whole point of this movie was to show how everything is connected. It started off by talking about how life on earth started. The earth was so hot that only certain types of bacteria could survive. The bacteria was taking in carbon and releasing oxygen. A specific bacteria started to evolve into trees. It was called cyanobacteria. Others evolved enough to make life. Now, humans have taken over almost all territories on earth. The agricultural revolution was our first great revolution and is still
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One of the main sources that paleontologists use to discover hidden secrets about the past is through studying fossils. Geologists, paleontologists, biologists, and other scientists study fossils in order to uncover facts about the different species and organisms that roamed the Earth up to 3 billion years ago. Using this knowledge, scientists have learned more about the geological processes that continually happen today, as well as climate changes from the past and present, the origination and extinction
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The termites are an interesting group of insects. They are some of the only hemimetabolous insects that can undergo true eusocial behaviors. This ability to form a close-knit community allows them to form a super-organism. This super-organism is built upon actual individual organisms, which are the different castes in a termite mound. Termite social behavior can be a lot like human behavior in many ways, depending on the human culture you're looking at. In most western human cultures, we lack the
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The article I read this week was about Chytridomycosis also known as amphibian chytrid fungus disease. This is an infectious disease that affects many amphibians around the world. It’s caused by the chytrid fungus which causes sporadic deaths in some and 100% mortality in others. This disease has been suspected to be the cause for many mass deaths and extinctions of frogs since the 1990’s but its origin and impact is not well known. Chytrid was first found in dead and dying frogs in Queensland in
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Evolution All humans have one thing in common, their ancestry. Evolution is a theory that explains the genetic diversity in all living organisms. For example, it explains how humans evolved from apes (“Academy defends teaching evolution”). The theory of evolution is largely based on the ideas of Charles Darwin and is controversial because it contradicts current theories on creation (“Human Evolution”). Charles Darwin is credited for the beginning of the theory of evolution (look in cites). The reason
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such as Lyell’s theory of uniformitarianism. Darwin linked the affects of an earthquake he experienced to Lyell’s ideas on the earth slowly changing, and the ability to look forward and backwards, which was a stepping-stone to future theories of evolution. Being in an entirely new environment provided brand new organisms for Darwin to study, to which he had no previous biases, making his observations completely
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cultural evolution The word Lamarckian is referred to as being the view that offspring acquire their traits through inheritance from their parents. It is often seen as a bad word in the name of evolution due to Darwin’s contribution to evolution as being seen as correct. However, when cultural evolution is brought into the situation there can be some Lamarckian aspects brought into play. This may seem confusing as Lamarck is referring to genotypes and phenotypes of biological evolution. The reason
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