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A 5 page research paper that answers 10 specific questions that pertain to the PBS series Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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professors and proposed that the "geological changes currently at work...are the same as processes that have taken place throughout the earths vast history" and the earth is far older than
what was believed at that time (Shroup). Darwin found fossil seashells in the Andes mounts, which supported Lyells theories (Shroup). His observations in the Galapagos Archipelago challenged the idea of
the fixity of species, as he reasoned that new species occurred as animals adapted to different environments on the islands (Shroup). What Charles and Erasmus Darwin learned from their
grandfathers writings: Erasmus Darwin, "physician, naturalist, poet and inventor," as well as grandfather to Charles Darwin and his brother Erasmus, wrote Zoonomia in 1794, in which he presented a theory
of evolution, which predates the theories of his grandson Charles (Cahill). In the chapter entitled "Of Generation," Erasmus Darwin speculates that "all warm-bloodied animals may have arisen from one living
filament" (Cahill). As this demonstrates, the theories of Darwins grandfather undoubtedly influenced his own thinking. Evidence from Ecuador that pertained to evolution: While in Ecuador, Darwin observed that the
hummingbirds that live on the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains are adapted to a wide range of environments, from "steamy lowland rainforest to windswept alpine meadows" ("Hummingbird Species"). Darwin
made a specific study of finches and research shows that when their DNA is compared to that of an "Ecuadorian bird called the grassquit," it shows that this species is
the "closest living relative of the Darwin finches on the mainland" (Zimmer 88). Three things that DNA relates about evolution: The science of evolutionary psychology, which is somewhat controversial,
indicates that the factors that people find alluring in a mate originate from humanitys evolutionary past, and, as with other species, these factors generally indicate someone who is healthy ("Is
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