Saturday, June 27, 2009

Evolution

Azel began to discuss his views about Darwin's work today in class. Sadly, we really did not have time to explore his thoughts. If we had more class time, we could have a great debate about the topic. Since we don't, however, I would like you to post a resonse to the following question. When done, visit at least three classmates' blogs and respond.

Question: In your opinion, do species change over time in order to adapt to their environment? Did we evolve from apes?

6 comments:

  1. In my opinion, species are changing all the time. They need to produce a large of population of their offspring;also, they need to inherit some of traits from ancestors which would adapt the environment. With these steps, a species can make an evolution and survive around the world.

    I have to say that I agree with that idea that we are from apes.

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  2. i agree with your idea billy, i think that people do come from apes. because in the past our environment that people live in is wet and cold so imagine that the weather is like that so the nature would be big and thick. so if we want to survive we have to adapt to the environment according to the studies in level 7. so every species have to adpat to the environment that they are living to adapt to where that they are belonging.

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  3. Good brief. I agree that change has been occuring so far and it will be going on in future also. In addition, it can be explained those traits aren't only inherited by ancestors but it is also made by ourselves, by environment.

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  4. Good idea billy as I told before I am not very familiar with this topic but it is very interesting and now I think species are changing all the time.

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  5. In my opinion, I agree with this idea that more species change over times, in order to adapt to their environment. Also, I believe my ancestor could evolve from apes. According to all of the studies during several weeks, these videos, reading, and lecture let me understand clearly how and why several species change over times for adapting to their environment changing. In order to keep more health and stronger offspring, they need to adapt to their living environment. Then, these survives can keep their species’ gene for longer time. Maybe several parts of species require changing for adapting to environment in short-period time. In Darwin’s theory, he called this process of changing is natural selection. Moreover, human beings still is changing over times in modern society, in order to adapt to our environment and future. As a result, I believe human beings could evolve from apes also. Although the size of brain is the biggest gap between apes and us, we have several similar bodies’ parts such as hands and mouth. Depended on several fossils, apes had evolved in order to adapt their environment changing. For example, apes cannot stand up to see as backing in 400 millions years, but they tried to stand up and walk later because of seeing more far places for protection. Then, apes’ offspring had evolved to adapt their environment with their gene which changes their structure of bones to stand till today. At present, scientists have found with new technology that some apes’ DNA is closely similar to human beings’. There is a evidence for proving human beings evolved from ape.

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  6. i agree with you that we evolved from apes and now we are still evolving to adapt the environment.

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