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Dawkins Uses The Example Dawkins Explains Genes
1,178 wordsIn the popular science book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins explains his theory of evolution, and its occurrence for the good of the gene rather than the good of the species or individual. Dawkins believes the gene to be practically immortal, carrying on generation upon generation. By calling them selfish Dawkins describes a genes strategy of competition for survival, its tendency to behave in a manor suited to ensure its propagation. Genes are competing directly with their alleles for surviv...
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Science And Religion Homo Sapiens
2,025 wordsEvolution vs. Creationism The fact that science and religion are two mutually excluding categories has been clearly illustrated, throughout the history. After Christianity became a an official religion in Rome, the ancient ideals of beauty and perfection, embodied in classical Greek and Roman sculptures, yielded to midgets, hunchbacks, lunatics and impotent's. The same thing happened in the intellectual domain, as well. Ancient science, which was a veritable science in most of its notions, was r...
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Rocks Of Ages By Stephen Jay Part 2
1,814 words... principle that all apparent struggles between science and religion really arise frm violations f NMA, when a small grup allied t ne magisterium tries t image its irrelevant and illegitimate will upn the ther's domain. This affect t NMA is, however, purely American. Guld reveals that in mst parts f the world the belief in evolution and the belief in religion d nt preclude each ther. Furthermore, even in America, creating science has nly cme t the fremont in the latter half f the twentieth-cen...
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2,512 wordsCan morality provide us with a form of self-transcendence? Within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on various philosophers opinions in order to find out whether morality can provide us with a form of self transcendence. Self-transcendence, according to Nietzsche, is the common essence of all moral codes. "Man, " he says, "is something that should be transcended. " (Cohen 126) Self-transcendence is, for him, not only the essence of morality, but most emphatically the essence of man h...
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End To End Revenue Growth
1,616 words... is not seeking regulation of the Internet by Governments, we are seeking a fair, equitable and sustainable set of arrangements for international Internet connections. In working towards a better balance of international settlement arrangements between Australia and the rest of the world in both telephone and data traffic. Telstra recommends adopting a national coordinated approach to liberalization and overcoming anti-competitive behaviour in the area of international settlement arrangements...
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Short Term Goals Theory Of Evolution
1,604 wordsAccording to Darwin, the theory of natural selection would suggest that every individual seeks only to further their own goals at the expense of all others, as only those individual organisms that win the battle for resources get the chance to reproduce and pass on their genes, creating a new generation of individuals who are good at serving their own interests. Conversely, those who are good at serving the interests of others will not be rewarded, but will instead become extinct as those whom t...
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School Of Thought Fossil Record
841 wordsAlthough modern evolutionists are thought to be divided on the issues surrounding evolutionary theory, a close look at the evidence suggests that both the gradualist school of thought and the punctuation ist school of thought share many characteristics in common. This is especially true when evaluating their beliefs about the fossil record, disagreement with the theory of saltation, and the misinterpretation of the word? rapid? in terms of punctuation ist theory. Although this may be the case, t...
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Selfish Gene Evolutionary Theory
1,177 wordsNatural selection Which of Richard Dawkins books is still one of Amazons hot 30 in nature and science? Not his most recent offering, Unweaving the Rainbow. Could it be Climbing Mount Improbable, from the early 1990 s, or even The Blind Watchmaker, from 1986? No, it is The Selfish Gene, first published more than 25 years ago. If you guessed right, you have a clue to why the popular-science market is getting harder for publishers. Assume, simple-mindedly perhaps, that we read science writers becau...
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Person To Person Cultural Transmission
685 wordsWhat are Memes? A meme is an idea which can be passed from person to person, the basic unit of cultural transmission. Memes are often analogized to genes, as self replicating information patterns; or to viruses, organic or computer, which prosper by infecting new hosts (in this case human minds) with copies of themselves. The term was invented by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. What are some examples of memes? Things like Rollerblading, Forrest Gump, the Web, skinny half-decaf doub...
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Defense Mechanisms Scientific Evidence
911 wordsMaterialism vs. Dualism There is no doubt that we are physical beings, but there is a question as to where our consciousness comes from. Can this consciousness come from a completely physical make up or do we have another non-physical entity? Does consciousness come from a physical brain or a non-physical mind? The two competing views of this question are materialism and dualism. Materialism views the world as being made up of only physical things, while dualism believes that everything has a ph...
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Nature And Nurture Identical Twins
1,215 wordsNurture or Nature? The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature (heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories to explain the characteristics of human-beings. Usually, these theories were one directional in the nature / nurture question. Today, a new approach to deal with this question is emerging. This new approach finds a middle ground between nature and nu...
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Life After Death Immortal Soul
3,093 wordsTo what extent does it make sense to talk about life after death? Nobody likes the idea that we are going to die. Its one of those things that pop into your head whenever you get comfortable, possibly as a subconscious motivational tool. Just in case you ever get really, truly at ease with your life it strikes you that it will all come to an end (possibly quite horribly) without your say-so or even prior notification. Many people find this not only rude but also decidedly inconvenient, and refus...
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