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Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

Phylogenetic Order Within the Animal Kingdom

The eight organisms that are the focus of this paper, i.e. the common mosquito, the common flea, the...

Was Lucy not our Earliest Ancestor

Mankinds evolution has been marked by distinct physiological changes as well as distinct cultural and technological changes. Pres...

The Deepwater Horizon Problem

and wetlands along the coasts. BPs first response to contain the oil spill was to dump about two million gallons of dispersants...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Arguing Against Genetic Engineering

Even if we ignore the more controversial areas of genetic engineering, areas such as genetic engineering targeting the human...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

A Tidepool Hermit Crab Consideration

("Marine Life," 2003). Hermit crabs are able to protect the vulnerable part of their bodies through the utilization of an empty sn...

Overview of the Exotic but Very Poisonous Puffer Fish

exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species

of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Species Extinction and Growth of the Human Population

Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Goodall's First Observations, Mowat's Observing Wolves and Themes of Communication

In five pages communication skills as each of these essays reflect are examined in terms of the animal species featured in each. ...

Visiting South Africa's Cape Town from a Gardener's Perspective

In this paper consisting of five pages the botanic possibilities of this region and their source of fascination for any gardening ...

A Review of Extinct Humans

A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Tutorial on the Dinosaur Age

animal and plant species that have formed the existing ecosystem in terms of the need to learn more about the past. this can then...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Species and its Nature

that there are actually two different universes which coexist (Plato and the Perfect Universe, 2002). According to Plato, there i...

Species Known as Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)

softball and has spawned a number of unique names in addition to those noted above. Each fruit from Osage Orange has many fleshy ...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...