"The Butler Act, passed by the Tennessee legislature in 1925, is the most famous of the various statutes to restrict the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Not only did it lead to the notorious Scopes Trial that summer, but it remained a dramatic symbol of the antievolution movement in the United States for several decades. The Tennessee Academy of Science played an important role in the Scopes case at the appellate level, submitting an extensive legal brief challenging the law's constitutionality
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Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Darwin’s theory of evolution is based on three observations: First, individuals within a species vary from one another in morphology, physiology, and behavior. Second, variation is in some part inheritable so that variant forms have offspring that resemble them. Third, different variants leave different number of offspring. Darwin elaborates on the mechanism of evolution by suggesting that in the struggle for existence, nature selects those individuals
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Naturwissenschaften (2004) 91:255–276 DOI 10.1007/s00114-004-0515-y REVIEW Ulrich Kutschera · Karl J. Niklas The modern theory of biological evolution: an expanded synthesis Published online: 17 March 2004 Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract In 1858, two naturalists, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, independently proposed natural selection as the basic mechanism responsible for the origin of new phenotypic variants and, ultimately, new species. A large body of evidence for this hypothesis
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Article 4/4/16 Use it or Lose it: An Evolutionary Conundrum Evolution is typically viewed as a progressive force, so the notion of losing a previously beneficial adaptation is highly abnormal and subject to critical examination. Within the scientific community there has been and still is a great interest in what might drive losing adaptive traits, a process called degenerative evolution. Conceptually this confirms that evolution does not have a single direction, but is rather adaptive in nature
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answer. Music arises from human behaviour, and the study of human behaviour is part of biology. So any question about music is a question about biology, and every question about biology requires an answer within the framework of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. 2.1 Music is Something We Like What is music? It’s what comes out of the speakers when we play a CD on our stereo. It’s what we hear on the radio. Music is singers singing and musicians playing. Music is a sound that we
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When gene flow between two populations ceases, the potential for _____ exists. Speciation Bird guides once listed the myrtle warbler and Audubon's warbler as distinct species that lived side by side in parts of their ranges. However, recent books show them as eastern and western forms of a single species, the yellow-rumped warbler. Apparently, the myrtle warbler and Audubon's warbler _____. A) Successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring
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Variability Accelerates the Evolutionary Processes of Cancer Steven A. Frank1,2*, Marsha Rich Rosner3 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, 3 Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Summary: Recent cancer studies emphasize that genetic and heritable
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Outline Introduction: Where there is design, there is a designer. Thesis: G-d created the world in six days as described in the Book of Genesis, chapter one. Argument (point) #1: Apollo Argument (point) #2: The Cranium and the Brain Argument (point) #3: Hibernation: The bear Argument (point) #4: The painted turtle. The deer, the squirrel and the woodpecker: Conclusion: All societies since the creation of the world comprehend that acumen and intellect originate from a superior Intelligence
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word of the Bible is true. Every day, creation scientists are finding more and more evidence to support the six days of creation. There is nothing wrong with science, but in the end it is the fallible word of man. YOUNG EARTH At its simplest, evolution is a hypothesis which claims that all life has descended with modification from a primitive single celled organism in the remote past. The development has been one of increasing complexity. Originally, the first cell evolved from a preexisting organic
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Natural Selection (Darwin and Dawkin’s Theories Compared) Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. Evolution can be classified more as a theory, although there is scientific evidence supporting the idea. Charles Darwin was best known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change. Fisher noted, “Darwin unveiled his theory in
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