Evolutionary medicine

Andrew Read is an evolutionary biologist. When he was young, he used work with native’s birds of New Zealand, which is his homeland. Working with birds, he began to question about how these natives birds lives longer then humans so he became an evolutionary biologist. So now, he works with malaria parasite. These parasites bread very rapidly as if they are on drugs. Therefore, Mr. Read is worried about these bugs. In the 1960, the United States surgeon General believed that we have won the war against these bugs. Now days these bugs have become super bugs. These super bugs are now are killing more people then car accident per year. These bugs are stronger than ever before. The drug that has to combat them has lost their effectiveness. The bugs…

Understanding evolution is important because not only does evolution help humans to advance their knowledge in medicine and modify characteristics in plants, it also helps us to uncover the answer to the deepest question known to man, “Where do we come from?” The more evolution is studied and dissected, the more of benefit it is to us and our growing knowledge of earth and it’s history. Just like evolution itself, uncovering the many answers evolution supplies us with takes a lot of hard work…

He believed that all modern creatures had originated from “one living filament”, a common ancestor. Erasmus Darwin didn’t come about with natural selection, but he did believe in rivalry/competition and sexual selection. He Knew that the toughest males reserved the right to mate, so passing on satisfactory traits. He used an integrative method of research, bringing together multiple branches of science to come to his conclusion. A lot of his ideas were similar to those of Jean Baptiste Lamarck,…

Ethnological Theory Presented by: Ramin Farooq A theory in folklore studies that arose in England in the 1860’s and was current in world scholarship until the early 20th century. The originators of the ethnological theory were E. B. Tylor and A. Lang.Ethology studies the behavior of animals and humans from an evolutionary perspective Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth Human Ethology studies the biological basis of behavior. It is concerned with the adaptive, or survival,…

Nacirema have fascination with the mouth, which is beneficial to the society. Furthermore, Nacirema women have their special rites. They bake their heads in small ovens four times a month, which shows that they pay more attention to beauty like modern women. In addition, I believe that the medicine men and listener appearing in the article represents doctors and psychologist in the modern society. In general, Nacirema are identified as humans. In the article, the author describes a variety of…

since evolution is an area where there are few certainties and many general questions as we descend to details. For Dawkins, memes are replicators, units of cultural transmission. A replicator, as its name suggests, is something that can replicate. The best known replicators are genes that make copies of themselves: a DNA molecule can replicate and give rise to two DNA molecules identical to the original. Other non-biological replicators can be clays, especially kaolinite, which are created from…

The sick will not be allowed near their homes, near people who do not carry the disease. They will only be permitted to see other sickly people, and they will not be permitted to interact with the outside world. These camps where the sick reside will be enough to sustain life of healthy humans. There will be no medicine, but there will be food, water, shelter, clothes, and all the basic needs humans have. With all the people having diseases being in a relatively small, closed environment,…

Relevance of Evolution in Modern Health Care Understanding the relevance of evolution in the field of medicine has led to several scientific breakthroughs. Naturally, the theory of evolution is the glue that holds the two together, and is said to give science its purpose. As medical science continues to make much needed progress in the development of new medications and treatments, its findings can be exploited by thoroughly exploring evolution. Through the vast scholarship on biological…

Galapagos is a science fiction-fantasy story set in a third person narrative that was written by the author Kurt Vonnegut. Most of the story is set in the hotel of El Dorado in Ecuador and is spent introducing the characters of the story. The main characters are Mary Hepburn a widow from America who was a biology teacher at Ilium High School recently laid off from her job and mourning the death of her late husband Roy Hepburn who died of a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of his judgment and…

tomato, tiger, etc.…That common ancestor produced descendants, and those descendants produced their own descendants and modification takes place for each generation of descendant eventually leading to the wide variety of Earth’s lifeforms we have today. Common descent with modification occurs due to mechanisms of evolutionary change. A mechanism of evolutionary change requires for the process to affect the allele, gene variant, frequency. Natural selection is one of these mechanisms. The process…