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If you aint first , youre last

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The right due to that is displays the connections between each organism

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Because natural selection can produce amazing adaptations, it's tempting to think of it as an all-powerful force, urging organisms on, constantly pushing them in the direction of progress - but this is not what natural selection is like at all.

First, natural selection is not all-powerful; it does not produce perfection. It's all about getting genes into the next generation, and if your genes are "good enough" to do that, you don't have to be perfect. This should be clear just by looking around us: human populations carry genes that cause disease, plants may not have the genes to survive a drought, a predator may not be quite fast enough to catch her prey every time she is hungry. No population or organism is perfectly adapted.

Second, it's more accurate to think of natural selection as a process rather than as a guiding hand. Natural selection is the simple result of variation, differential reproduction, and heredity - it is mindless and mechanistic. It has no goals; it's not striving to produce "progress" or a balanced ecosystem.

This is why "need," "try," and "want" are not very accurate words when it comes to explaining evolution. The population or individual does not "want" or "try" to evolve, and natural selection cannot try to supply what an organism "needs." Natural selection just selects among whatever variations exist in the population. The result is evolution.

At the opposite end of the scale, natural selection is sometimes interpreted as a completely random process. This is also a misconception. The genetic variation that occurs in a population because of mutation is random - but selection acts on that variation in a very non-random way: genetic variants that aid survival and reproduction are much more likely to become common than variants that don't. Natural selection is NOT random!

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Because natural selection can produce amazing adaptations, it's tempting to think of it as an all-powerful force, urging organisms on, constantly pushing them in the direction of progress - but this is not what natural selection is like at all. First, natural selection is not all-powerful; it does not produce perfection.

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I disagree- even the tiniest of change can affect an organism and its future

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Disagree.
The Nick Adams stories. The Grasshoppers turned black.

#TeamEleveld #EleveldCameIntoMyWorkTheOtherDay

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Agree

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the bird is the word

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did you steal the fish rober?!?!

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Agree, but fitness seems to be also linked to reproduction and skills

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I quote, "Trees, not ladders"!

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I agree with Josh

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Agree, the ecosystem in which a population resides in can
can determine the effectiveness of evoultion within that
population
Does evolution even lift?

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girl, you crazy

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Everyone in this room is now stupider after hearing all these responses

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bring it aroooouuund town

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The right one.<br>Unless your parents are fish.

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Its all in the hips

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I disagree, Natural selection does not create perfection and is interpreted as random

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why steph?????

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Agree with Josh . . . the lifetime of an individual isn't long enough for evolution to occur.

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heck ya josh

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The one on the right because diversity of life is like a food web not a food chain.

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shutup leave josh alone

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I disagree too.

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Still agree,

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Disagree - it gives some organisms the ability to get what they need to survive.

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I disagree. Fitness is based on how many offspring organisms are capable of producing, which has nothing to do with the environment.

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I disagree due to the fact that there will always be religion and not everyone will totally agree with evolution due to generations of different beliefs

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My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun

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I agree with Josh.

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I was just making all that evolution stuff up.

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ma nigga ma nigga

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A single induvisual does not have the ability to evolve, evolution happens over tiem to a whole population*

*see Josh.

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I should have clarified that it could be a law as long as it was separated from creation.

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Natural selection gives different organisms various capabilities  but not everyone may have what is necessary to survive.

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agree

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agree

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Disagree is it a theory about how species change over generations.

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I agree because experiments could be done done to support the theory.

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I agree with Josh because without Josh I would be nothing

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I agree, but it is emphasized that instead of evolution simply meaning change over time, it truly focuses on the fact that we are all ancestors

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<-- disagre?

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Disagree, evolution exlain how life changes

over time, not where life came from.

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I agree; but the central idea is "genetic modification."

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Agree I do

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BAXTER - Common Misconceptions about the Nature of Science

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BAXTER - Common Misconceptions about the Nature of Science

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http://undsci.berkeley.edu/teaching/misconceptions.php#b7

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http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_27

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http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_07

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Read Josh's post

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http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_32

If natural selection gives organisms what they need to survive, why are we currently experiencing the earth's 5th mass extinction?

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http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm

http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/whatisscience_12

http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/howscienceworks_20

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Go to: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_02

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Through the process of descent with modification, the common ancestor of life on Earth gave rise to the fantastic diversity that we see documented in the fossil record and around us today. Evolution means that we're all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales.

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No.

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The ladder because you rise to the top.

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The tree.. Because I think everyone can climb a latter (bless your soul if you cant), but not everyone has the ability to climb a tree.

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Branches because different things evolve from different locations

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The right because at a particular time one organism cannot be more evolved than another

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Beets

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The picture on the right because it shows the populations more interlinked, the picture on the left shows the human dominating the other populations

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Disagree - first-world lifestyles are becoming increasingly sedintary and eventually our bodies will change because of that.

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I disagree, because when we affect the environment in damaging ways, we speed up natural selection.

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The one on the right because

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the right because all organisms share one common ancestor that used natural selection to evolve into different organisms

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Disagree, human intrusion can change ecosystems and encourage the growth of certain mutations in populations

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Disagree, because we have the ability to affect future generations.

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I have a dream

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disagree, all changes have an affect

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Agree

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agree

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Agree, fitness is relative to the environment an organism lives in

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No comprende

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The right picture because its branches out

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Agree

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I disagree because humans have to adjust to the changing environment

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I agree because the survival of the fittest incorporates

the idea of surviving in an environment.

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Disagree, in necessary situations people have to evolve. It takes a long time but it does happen.

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Disagree because humans can affect it they just wont live long enough to see the evolutionary change

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yes

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I disagree because even the littlest changes can affect individuals

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I disagree because we couldn't survive changing environments without changing and our environments change over time

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The right because all organisms are equal

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I disagree

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agree

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agree

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I agree

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Disagree - for example, skin tones vary by region.

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i agree

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I disagree, humans do evolve, we are just trying to stop our evolution right now by adapting the environment to us instead.

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extremely satified

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I agree with Josh

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The right, because they have all evolved to  high for the organism, whereas the one on the left shows that humans are the most evolved. So the picture on the right.

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agree

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Disagree because even the smallest of change can affect an organism

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Agree