The Pros And Cons Of Artificial Selection

The theory of Natural Selection allows more individuals to be produced each generation that can survive. Phenotypic variation is hereditary. Those individuals with hereditary traits better suitable to the environment with survive. This mechanism known as natural selection, which can be identified as genetic change in a population emerging from differential reproductive success. Thomas Malthus. Charles Darwin’s contemporary at that time was concerned about the theory of natural selection with the population growth and the limitations or restrictions with the limited food supplies had on the size of the population. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace realized that alike influences work in nature. Living creatures produce more offspring than can generally be expected to survive and reproduce.

Edward O. Wilson, in his essay Intelligent Evolution, diagnoses the “gap between science and faith-based religion” as “tectonic” (556), and predicts the continuous expansion of the gap. This gap appears most vividly in the field of biology, over the question of the origin of species of life on the Earth. The scientific answer to this question is the theory of evolution, which explains that the force of nature, called natural selection, has shaped and diversified the species of life on the Earth. However, Christians viewed the theory of evolution as a threat to their fundamental dogma: the existence of a single almighty deity, who has created life in the forms they exist today. In response, creationists utilized scientific methodologies and

Directional selection and disruptive selection differ because instead of the subject only going in one direction it will split off and go two different ways for example if some flowers and their colors. The main colors may be red, pink and white primarily, and the more dominate color being a pink flower. But if we remove the pink flower completely from the equation then the flowers will shift toward the dominant white color over the red. In a directional selection there is only one trait and it is always that dominant trait that dictates body of the population. The best example to show this is that in the area that giraffes live in the vegetation is in the higher trees so the giraffe has adapted a neck that is long enough to reach the vegetation that is crucial to its survival. It’s a lot like being graded on a curve where Directional selection is only going to have one peak to its curve but disruptive would have two peaks.

The theory of evolution has been discussed, evaluated, and researched many times since the theory was first brought to light. Darwin’s theory of evolution is said to be divided into two parts, common decent and natural selection (Bouzat, 2014). Many research papers agreeing with Darwin’s theory comment on the diversity of a species and how they have descended from one common ancestor. Natural selection is a process in which species that are better adapted to the environment tend to survive and reproduce (Dictonary.com). Natural selection is seen in the finches that Darwin studied on the Galapagos Islands. Environment and food supply changes caused the finches beaks to adapt in a unique way. Studies on Darwin’s finches show us that natural selection in a natural environment is interpretable, observable, and repeatable (Grant, 2003). Natural selection is representable in different types of birds such as the Island Scrub-jay. A study published in 2015 on these Island Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma insularis) demonstrates examples of natural selection. The Cambrian explosion argues against Darwin’s theory of natural selection. It

Human variation is the genetic difference both within and among populations. There are three main causes of human variation namely mutation, gene flow and sex. These causes combined make it very unlikely for any two humans to have the exact same genetic make ,even twins who develop from the same zygote have slightly deferent genetics due to mutation, gene flow and sex. Mutation effect DNA changes, gene flow is a cause of genetic variation from one population to another and sex is a source of gene combinations which all lead to a vast variation in human

Cloning is the processes that are used in order to generate exact genetic makeup of a cell, tissue, or organism. The term clone refers to the copied material with the same genetic makeup of the original. According to the definition by National Genome Research Institute (NIH) cloning can be differentiated into three types, those are:

The enslavement of African American’s has many negative impacts on the United States’ legal system in many ways. One of the ways slavery have impacted the United States’ legal is Caucasian people had developed theories to claim that the Caucasians were inferior to African Americans. Some of the Caucasian people that contributed to coming up with theories or ideas that Caucasians was superior to African Americans are Thomas Jefferson, Charles White, Oliver Goldsmith and Benjamin Rush.

While it is not a fact that bigger families are happier, it is a fact that the Earth is running out of space. With an estimated 7.3 billion people living on this planet as of now and 2 billion more people are estimated to join the current population by 2050, the world does not have the space nor the resources to keep these many people happy. Whether people like it or not, something has to be done about the growing human population. If the human population continues to grow without anything to slow the growth, humans will die out along with the Earth. Because humanity will run out of resources, there will be economic issues, and there will be serious contamination to the environment. Population control needs to be implemented into countries by governments.

Eugenics is the science of using artificial selection to improve genetic features of the population. It is thought that improvement of the human race can be seen through sterilization of people who exhibit undesirable traits and selective breeding. Often called Social Darwinism, the concept was widely accepted during the time of World War I. It quickly became a taboo after World War II when Nazi Germany used it as an excuse for genocide. The thought of improving the human race by manipulating who is allowed to breed can either be appalling or compelling. There are a few appealing aspects to the act of eugenics. If eugenics were applied, the world could potentially see a decrease in disease, a rise in intelligence, and heightened physical aesthetic in humans. But, ethically it crosses many boundaries that have prevented this idea from going into world-wide effect in the past.

When the word artificial comes to my mind fake thoughts run through me, like water runs down your throat. Artificial christmas trees, flowers, foods, anything artificial you can think of, almost everyone has it and has produced it. As you read this, do you have any idea what artificial means? Said on dictionary.com, artificial means produced by humans, not occurring naturally. For example, artificial selection would be taking a wild animal, such as a whale, living in the huge ocean and putting him/her in a place like Seaworld, where they don’t adapt to the environment well, and are not used to the resources and rules. As you can see there has been many deaths at Seaworld because the animals, such as Orca whales, can not adapt to the small warm environment after being in the huge ocean with their family for their whole life. As said on “Live Science”“A 3-month-old orca calf

Social Darwinism is the result of applying Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution to human society, and one of the forefront Social Darwinists was none other than William Graham Sumner. In general, the concept of Social Darwinism has many pros such as “breeding” out weakness and disease, supporting the strong, and encouraging the development of a more advanced society. It also as many disadvantages, however, such as a smaller gene pool, hindering the weak, and controlling who gets to have children. Using the writings of both Darwin and Sumner, these pros and cons will be explored to prove that the negatives of Social Darwinism outweigh the positives.

Imagine what would happen if we lived in a world where water was kept 8 feet off the ground and there was absolutely no way you could get it if you weren’t tall enough. Most likely, the short people would die off. The taller ones would multiply, and before long, instead of a population of people of all sizes, you would have a population of only tall people. Living things that are best suited, or adapted, to their environment survive and multiply. Those that are not, are unable to survive. This process is known as natural selection, which explains how Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution can occur.

The theory of evolution has been under attack all throughout the history of the natural sciences. Several groups of people, especially those of which whom are affiliated with the Humanities, particularly Theologians are one of the notable people whom have questioned the theory introduced by Charles Darwin. As such, Shermer found it necessary to further discuss and at the same time address the said concern through the article. It could be deduced that the article formally shuts down the “unlikeliness” of evolution by presenting several accounts that prove the said theory to be true. With this being said, the author claims that scientists agree that evolution did happen and it has been an

Summary: DNA makes us human. We are different in hight, color, shape but and the end we are bonded 99.9 percent. I choose to read “Seeing Beyond Our Differences” by Sherry White because she talks about how DNA make human all equal despite our nature laguage, gender, or sexual orientation. Sherry White,daughter of mix-races, she describes the diferenece of her parents skin color; mother; dark skin originally from india. she came to the United States in 1960 and married her father- a white boy from Indiana whose ancestors came from Germany in the mid-1800s and England in the mid-1600s. Her grandfather was a member of the KKK but was not against her parents marriage, but, he was only concern of their safety and how others would treat them. Despite the culture differences and how traditionally her parents culture was, Sherry mentions that at the age of thirty she decided to tell her parents she felt attracted to

This is a common point of disagreement between pro-evolutionists and anti-evolutionists. The irreducible complexity argument from anti-evolutionists states that complex structures like the human eye cannot arise from a process of natural selection and evolution alone. This is because if you take parts away from the eye it fails to function, leading one to conclude the eye must have been made in one act of creation by a supernatural intelligence, the same way a watch would have had to be made from start to finish by an intelligent watchmaker with the intention of an end-goal which would be the final watch itself. Half a watch, or three-quarters of a watch would serve no practical purpose.