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This Fleeting World is a small summary of ‘big history’. David Christian’s book is a mere 92 pages long with an included 9-page prequel (on topics during the first years without humans such as Earth’s creation and more) and 16-page appendix on the book’s use in school, historical periodization, and a 4-page list of sources. With around 120 pages, this short book seems to be the perfect size to represent how our species’ history is only miniscule fraction compared to the history of that around us. In a world that has been around for over four and a half billion years old (6) in a universe that is 13.8 billion years old (1), homo sapiens have been around for only approximately 250,000 of those years (9). It seems impossible, though, to fit those hundreds of thousands of years into the modest text. However, Christian does the impossible and makes a well written short ‘big history’. Where many other historians before him have failed at making one, Christian’s book, This Fleeting World, summarizes history from the big-bang all

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, loneliness can be caused by race as shown in Crooks who is the only person on the ranch of color. When all the ranch workers left for the town Lennie stayed behind so he decided to walk around the ranch and he sees a man and wants to talk to him but, the man says he does not want Lennie to come in so they talk outside of his room. Lennie does not understand the idea of racism so he is different fromt the other ranch workers. Lennie starts to talk with Crooks and he says “well, I got a right to have a light, you go on get outta my room. I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room”(Steinbeck 68).

According to Darwin and his theory on evolution, organisms are presented with nature’s challenge of environmental change. Those that possess the characteristics of adapting to such challenges are successful in leaving their genes behind and ensuring that their lineage will continue. It is natural selection, where nature can perform tiny to mass sporadic experiments on its organisms, and the results can be interesting from extinction to significant changes within a species.

In 1994, two hundred million people own a gun privately, but today its between two hundred seventy and three hundred million people own guns. There have been more than ten firearms deaths per 100,000 people a year. "In 90% of gun crimes, the firearms has changed at least once since the original sale" (Bennet, 3). The topic of gun control can prevent school shootings have a history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic.

Since the Earth’s birth, this is about 4.6 billions years ago animals have faced massive obstacles in sustaining life due to unforgiving environmental conditions. As a result, only few animals have survived while the other 99.9% have became extinct (Deep Time 2001). The mechanism that allowed the 0.1% to outlive the unfortunate is evolution. In a broader picture, it can be described as a change in a population’s appearance over generations. More specifically, evolution it is a change in the genetic makeup of a population over time that is a consequence of mutations, crossing over, or independent assortment. Moreover, this change brings about a positive impact in the population as seen in Finches, which evolved to have stronger beaks in response to harder foods (Yoon 2007). The spread of stronger beaked finches was a product of natural selection; a process by which better-adapted animals survive to produce offspring, while other animals lacking certain advantages will not

There is life all around the planet, even in extreme habitats. How it is possible for organisms to survive in such extreme conditions? It is possible to have life out of Earth? How this life could be? To try answering these questions, it is necessary to look back to Earth’s history and its current environments and conditions, as well other places in the solar system, searching for tips in the complexity of organisms adapted to the extreme conditions for life beyond Earth.

Weak adaptationism is a more realistic view, which recognises that organisms may appear to be optimised by natural selection but allows for the idea that the trait may not be optimal and other factors other than natural selection also play a part in adaptations. Explanatory adaptationism and epistemological adaptationism suggest that biologists have satisfactory methods to form true conclusions about adaptation and that evolutionary biology should be to explain adaptation. Weak adaptation bases its conclusions upon experimentation and observations, not

Life on Earth is made up of a diverse array of plants, animals and microorganisms. The slow, diverse process of evolution results in such diversity. Natural selection is a process that drives evolution by selecting for traits that allow an organism to adapt and survive (and thereby reproduce) in its environment. Though adaptations help an organism survive in its environment, every adaptation either results in the loss of some other trait or reduces the performance of the other trait(s) (Freeman, 2013). Adaptation as a result of evolution by natural selection may result in anatomical alterations and/or changes in behavior (Schussler, 2014).

Women have been considered inferior to men since the beginning of time. The Women in China were perceived no differently. Only in modern times have women’s social conditions begun to improve. The rise of the Chinese Communist Party saw several improvements for women’s rights. Women have been barred from participating in the political processes, banished from the fields and condemned to performing housework and having babies. The CCP viewed women as “holding up half of the sky” with men holding the other half; because of this new perception, the CCP chose to advance the female condition by not only abolishing old, barbaric practices, but by also giving women more social power by emancipating them from their husbands and fathers.

In Naturalistic Evolutionary view point, Earth was formed out of nothing 4.6 billion years ago, and went through several different periods of intense transition to arrive at what we now see. The first period of transition is known as the Precambrian in which “the most important events

Precambrian time is most of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.6 billion years ago. There are many theories on how life began. Some people say there was a “Big Bang” that happened 4.6 billion years ago. Scientist say that some chemicals collided with some solar energy and then there was a big explosion that created the world we live in today. No one can prove that the

One of the most important shifts in evolutionary biology in the past 50 years is an increased recognition of sluggish evolution and failures to adapt, which seem paradoxical in view of abundant genetic variation and many instances of rapid local adapta- tion. I review hypotheses of evolutionary constraint (or restraint), and suggest that although constraints on individual characters or character complexes may often reside in the structure or paucity of genetic variation, organism-wide stasis, as described by paleontologists, might better be explained by a hypothesis of ephemeral divergence, according to which the spatial or temporal divergence of populations is often short-lived because of interbreeding with nondivergent populations. Among

Evolution depends on both inheritance and selection (Arnold, 1994). Heritable traits having some advantage to an organism must be passed on from one generation to the next. As a result, the organisms that have inherited these traits will be better suited for survival in a specific environment. In other words, the ability for an individual to survive is not enough to fuel evolutionary progression- there must be reproduction taking place as well (Figure 1).

Evolution is the gradual development of life on Earth. It is responsible for the unusual carnivorous plants (species such as Dionaea muscipula), the beautiful coloured plume of the male peacock, even the possibility of cells adapting to protect against continual low exposure to radiation (Russo, GL. et al 2012). Without it, the lavish diversity of organic life we interact with every day would be non-existent.

Modern humans have been on Earth for more than 200,000 years. Although many people feel that 200,000 years is a fairly long time for us to have existed as a species, it is quite the opposite. The earth is estimated to have been made 4.54 billion years ago. Life as we know it is estimated to have begun 4 billion years ago. When comparing the existence of the human race to the existence of the planet we live on or the existence of all forms of life, it becomes very apparent that the humans species time on this planet has been relatively miniscule. If you took the entire history of the 13.7 billion year old universe and compressed it into one year, the first humans would not even show up until 10:30 pm on December 31st.