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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...

Overview of Howler Monkeys

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

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...

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...

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...

The Perch and Frog and Their Impact

caecilians - is more closely related to the lepospondyls, another group of archaic amphibians" (Skrepnick, 2008). What this foss...

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...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Regulations and Zoning

In a paper of four pages, the authore reflects on major environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a...

Examination of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

wide variety of facts better than any other theory. It is also true that some scientific theories are better at providing an expla...

Ecology of the Galapagos

islands and islets. There are 13 major islands in the archipelago, ranging in size from 5 to 1800 square miles in size, with more ...

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Darwinism

Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...

Man’s impact on the environment

to what it might mean to other species of animals. When we consider habitat disruption at the hands of development, hundred...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Monkey Eating Eagle of the Philippines

Noting how the Monkey-eating eagle requires "a contiguous territory in excess of 100 square kilometers of advanced second growth a...

Megafauna

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

Darwin's Theory and Genesis

occurrence of profitable variations" (Darwin IV). This offers the reader an understanding of how change and alteration creates new...

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...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Social Change: How It Shapes And Impacts Society And The Human Family

did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freed...

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

Mangroves

this information it is evident that all of these mangroves are intricately connected. And, it is also noted that they all present ...

Entomology Cases: Compare/Contrast

who were also at the site of the attack; without this intrinsic connection, it is highly probable that the correlation would have ...

4th Grade/Endangered Animals Web Quest

a place where students share ideas. One of the wonder features of the Internet is that they can provide 2-way communication with c...

Public Service And Professionalism

many people and industries alike; however, Althen et al (2002) note how it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled...

Satellites: Contribution To Technology

and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...

Clines, Race and Society

we are actually looking at "is a pattern of features derived from common ancestry in the area in question, and these are largely w...

Laurent Dubois' "Avengers Of The New World: The Story Of Haitian Revolution"

other ways, as well - to lead a rebellion due to his ability to read, write and obtain a superior understanding of the world beyon...