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    developed or gone away like a tail bone on a human. Another way to track evolution is to look at the development of proteins and other chemicals in the organism’s body. Through tracking the evolution of chemicals a person can see how close two organisms are related. This method of tracking is useful with proteins like Pax6 a gene that controls eye development. Organisms that have an eyes can be found to have a variation of Pax6, these organisms include mice, humans, flies,

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    The human foot is an example of micro-evolutionary and macro-evolutionary changes. It has had to adapt to bipedal walking and the stress that is caused by being upright. To identify changes in the human foot; comparative, molecular, and biocultural approaches and their paradigms are used. Therefore, different, and cumulative approaches are needed to make informed hypotheses in biological anthropology. The foot will be shown as an example of approaches commonly used and the resulting perspectives

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    Sexual strategies are important for any animal who reproduces sexually. Animal compete for their mates in several ways, human included. Human mating strategies have evolved over time along with the rest of our needs and rituals. Males and females need and want different things from mating and these needs and wants have also evolved over time. With the introduction of female independence and technology, such as the internet, sexual strategies and finding a mate have become more complicated that

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    With the improved living conditions, healthcare, communication, and evolution of human intelligence, technological advancement in the world today has grown to unprecedented levels. For example, as a result of technology, patients can remotely interact with medics located in different parts of the world through telehealth/telemedicine. In the field of education, students do not necessarily need to visit libraries to access books; there are several soft copies of books online that they can access from

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    In the science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The director, Stanley Kubrick, portray his masterpiece in an ambiguous understanding where he examines topics such as extraterrestrial life, the dealings with technology and the human evolution. Throughout the movie, Kubrick depicts the facade, monolith as an instrument in awakening intelligence. Moreover, the protagonists go through a drastic change of struggle to explore on the idea of technology and extraterrestrial life. In the opening scene

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    Human Resource Management: Human Resource Management is the management of organization’s personnel or human resources. It can also be described as the complete set of managerial tasks and actions concerned with maintaining a trained staff (personnel) and human resource that contribute to organizational effectiveness. Evolution of Human Resource Management: Stage-I: Pre-world war-ii era and Rising Personnel Management: Emergence of the Term “Personnel”: Personnel Management can draw back to

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    While many diseases and viruses are caused by outside sources, some diseases occur from within the human body. Regular ailments can be cured with medicine, or fought off overtime by getting a vaccine, but certain diseases and anomalies cannot be directly treated. This is because they are genetically inherited by certain parts of one’s DNA. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid, and is inherited from the parents of a person. These strands, found within the nucleus of all cells, determine the appearance

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    evolved from primates and then, by following the Darwinistic theory of evolution, Neanderthals, when in fact they all evolved alongside each other, sharing common ancestors rather than directly coming from one another. This then lead to similarities in the DNA as well to the high probability that there was interbreeding between the species; phylogenic tree mappings of the mitochondrial DNA of numerous different modern humans from around the world as well as the mtDNA of an assortment of Homo neanderthalensis

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    In D.T. Max’s essay on “How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution”, he states that we are,” taking matters into our own hands.” After saying this, he quickly starts to mention both the effects (both positive and negative) of both naturally occurring adaptations and the artificially occurring adaptations that often occur through the ever-advancing means of technology. First and foremost, Max mentions in his article that his inspiration came from a man he met in Barcelona, Neil Harbisson, who was

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    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. Human beings are no exception to

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