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Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and Natural Selection

In five pages this paper examines Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species in terms of its natural selection theory content. Six so...

An Examination of Aviadenovirus

In five pages adenoviruses are presented in an overview with aviadenovirus or the infection of such domestic fowl species as turke...

Hippocampus ingens Seahorses

In five pages the Hippocampus ingens species is emphasized in this overview of seahorses that includes biology as well as pharmace...

Geological Overview of the Garnet Gemstone

In five pages the garnet gemstone is examined in an overview of its geology, processing, and associated mineral species. Four sou...

Alligator Mississippiensis or the American Alligator

In five pages this American species of alligator is examined in an overview of how it evolved from the crocodile, its reproductive...

Mallard Bird Species

In four pages the Anatidae family species known as mallard is described in terms of breeding, geography, dynamics, eating and othe...

Overview of Howler Monkeys

spite of ongoing territory degradation. Specific to their region are the foods required to perpetuate the species, including cert...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

the world, based on his observations and research. He states, "I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those...

Administration of President George W. Bush, Endangered Species, and International Trade

of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...

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...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Species and its Nature

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

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 ...

Illinois' Endangered River Otter Species

successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

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...

Endangered Species the Indiana Bat

has the distinction of being classified as the last mammal to be discovered from that area. While the Indiana bat is found all th...

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...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

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...