Response to Meghan

In Meghan's blog she talks about how environment and how it shapes us. This is because penguins and seagulls are both birds but are different in a lot of ways. The major one is appearance. If a seagull were to live in the climate that penguins do they would die instantly from the freezing temperature. But, if penguins lived in the hot climate that seagulls do they would not survive because they are so dark and not made for that temperature. People are also based on the same concepts. Someone who was born and raised in Florida would  have a different reaction to cold than someone who lives in Alaska and is used to the freezing temperatures and vise versa. Now this does not say that everything in nature determines how people will inherent genes and what will make them the way they are. But it does have a significant effect

Response to Meghan

I agree with Meghan's post in her blog that says that nature is not really wild because scientists have gone in to the depths of the wild that most of man kind would not venture to. This is because they think they can find something out there that can help them develop a new treatment for cancer. Or at least they say that because they could have an ulterior motive. This is because they find new animals that are out there and could potentially  strip the forest of a plant that may cure something other than what they want it to. Any where that man can go man will go. This is because most people want to go somewhere that has been untouched and discover something that makes them famous. So, is the wild really wild?

Natural selection is the fittest of the fittest surviving. But what does that even mean? Everything survives for a while, like dinosaurs. But, then they die out. So what could be the fittest of the fit if all things die out? Well, it is also said that they become fit because of their genes. But, the genes that are accounted for are the good ones and not the bad ones. Before I can answer that question, the question that arises is what are bad genes? These are genes that make addiction or a mental illness. These are only diagnosed in humans because they are the only ones that can seek treatment for them. Most other animals just die out because there body is going through too much. But, this also raises the point that when Darwin wrote about natural selection that when an animals would not mate with the one that was not fit and they would just allow those genes to die out.  But if this were true nothing would mate with that and there would not be anymore "bad genes".