Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Evolution

Azel began to discuss his views about Darwin's work today in class. Sadly, we really did not have time to explore his thoughts. If we had more class time, we could have a great debate about the topic. Since we don't, however, I would like you to post a resonse to the following question. When done, visit at least three classmates' blogs and respond.
Question: In your opinion, do species change over time in order to adapt to their environment? Did we evolve from apes?

16 comments:

HERNANDO CARRERA said...

Jennifer, This topic is very interesting. I think that we can use exactly one hour on Friday in a great debate about "Evolution". This hour will be an investment time because we will practice the way to argue and sustain each argument.

Dan said...

Yes,like the finches are a good example for this overview. In the dry season, the beak of the bird is big and in the rainy season, their beaks are small. So, species really change over time in order to adapt to their environment. So do us, in order to adapt the new environment, apes had to chang themselves for living.One of the most significant change is straight up.So we really evolve from apes.

HERNANDO CARRERA said...

In my opinion species change all the time. Humans change day after day. New generations of Humans have new abilities, new illness resistance and mutations.

Humans not evolve from apes. Humans an Apes have the same common ancestor.

Jason said...
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Jason said...

At first, I believe we came from apes. According to some researches, they testified that we were evolved from ostrolophiticus. Compare to the figure of otrolophiticus and human being, the size of brain is the biggest gap between ostrolophiticus and us. The researches also mentioned about the reason why the gap is existed is human being has been using the brain persistently. The more we have been using, the more it has been progressing and getting bigger to adapt our needs and environment. and if we keep using our brains, unfortunately(?), it'll be bigger than now as well. :)

j3ssie said...

According to all the studies, videoos, reading that we just had in this week and also last week' i think that this topic is very interesting that we could understand about our changes in this long period of time. i think species do change over by adapting to their environment because if it couldn't adapt to that environment then these species can be destroy. they adapt to their environment because they want to get use to the environment in other to survive. so do people, from the researcher people do came from ape. people are different from ape because at that time back in 400 million year, the atmosphere that ape live is full of forest so ape need to stand up to see over the high grass. after ape can stand up then ape changed the srtucture of their bone to people today. so i believed that all the species do adapt to their envirnoment to survive by changing in a period of time.

jane said...

In my opinion, I think the species change over time in order to adapt to their environment and also I believe we came from apes. As we know,time always change everything. Species and humans conld be change all the time. According to some researches,they testified that we were evolved from apes.Moreover,our brain, behavior and body almost same to the apes.Just we used thonsand or milliln year to change that is very complexity and difficult to understand.

Odai said...

In my opinion, species do cange over time because of the change of their environment. And i think the same with humen,we came from apes. They change from 1 generation to another. I think the envrinmen force the the species and humen to change. They need to cahnge to survive in life.

Thamir said...

The world around us is constantly changing. I think species change over time in order to adapt to their environment. Species are forced to adapt so they can survive variations in their natural habitat. I do not think that we evolved from apes due to relegious bellieve. I believe that we are god's creation.

billy940 said...

In my opinion, species are changing all the time. They need to produce a large of population of their offspring;also, they need to inherit some of traits from ancestors which would adapt the environment. With these steps, a species can make an evolution and survive around the world.

I have to say that I agree with that idea that we are from apes.

mitsu said...

I guess all of species have changed them selves so that adapt their environment. They have to survive and produce certain amount of offsprings to remain their genes to the world. According to the Darwin's research, all spiecies have a same ancestor, and they have modified to adapt their conditions.
I don't agree with we evloved from apes. Some researchers mention that our ansestors came from out side of the earth, and it becomes one of the advanced theory of our evoluton. I think this is the real theory.

maryam said...

According to the studies and reading that we had until now, I really interested about this topic. In before, I never believed that the species change over the time in order to adapt to their environment and can evolve from ape but now those information help me to think about it again and believe it can be possible.

DiEp3o9 said...

In my opinion, i think humans evolved from apes. we can compare between human body structure and apes and we find out a lot of the same things. Moreover, i believe we are still continuing to evolve to the higher species. For example, the new generations become taller, fatter, stronger and more intelligent. The environment changes overtime so to exist,human need to adapt to new environment.

Alden_Zhang said...

I believe we evolve from apes, because some scientists have already proved that apes is the most similar species with human. There are too many the same characteristics. On the other hand, I have heard a story. Long long tiem ago, spes all lived on the tree, because food was not enough for them, therefore some of them tried to descover the land. This group of spes began to use 2 legs to walk, and learnt to make a tool to kill other animals for food, then they developed and developed , until now they evolve to human. Other spes who did not follow them become champs,monkey,etc. So I really believe this is ture.

Mark Li said...

In my opinion, I agree with this idea that more species change over times, in order to adapt to their environment. Also, I believe my ancestor could evolve from apes. According to all of the studies during several weeks, these videos, reading, and lecture let me understand clearly how and why several species change over times for adapting to their environment changing. In order to keep more health and stronger offspring, they need to adapt to their living environment. Then, these survives can keep their species’ gene for longer time. Maybe several parts of species require changing for adapting to environment in short-period time. In Darwin’s theory, he called this process of changing is natural selection. Moreover, human beings still is changing over times in modern society, in order to adapt to our environment and future. As a result, I believe human beings could evolve from apes also. Although the size of brain is the biggest gap between apes and us, we have several similar bodies’ parts such as hands and mouth. Depended on several fossils, apes had evolved in order to adapt their environment changing. For example, apes cannot stand up to see as backing in 400 millions years, but they tried to stand up and walk later because of seeing more far places for protection. Then, apes’ offspring had evolved to adapt their environment with their gene which changes their structure of bones to stand till today. At present, scientists have found with new technology that some apes’ DNA is closely similar to human beings’. There is a evidence for proving human beings evolved from ape.

orhun said...

i think that species change over time in order to adapt to their enviroment.they have to produce offspring in order to increase in the world.they also have to survive in the world .
I believe that we came from apes because we have similar characteristic feature