Question

i. Why does Darwin believe that nature has put such a premium upon the enhanced survival skills of certain creatures?

ii. Darwin compares natural selection to a country undergoing some form of climate change. How does he say that such an example and climate change are similar?

iii. Darwin argues that the hand of "natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and where opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." If Darwin is correct, how come we don't see people, animals, and other organisms morphing before our eyes?

iv. What makes leaf-eating insects green, bark-eating insects mottled grey, and gives hawks such good eyesight? What happened to the insects of the wrong color or the near-sighted hawks?

v. How could this view of the role(s) played by the laws of nature upon the rest of the animal kingdom (yes, you are a part of the animal kingdom: the ape family) be interpreted to apply to human interactions? After reading this kind of expose, what reason might some give for poverty, disease, or the domination of one people over another? [I do not mean to suggest that it should be applied, completely, to the understanding of human interactions, but some did, and I am setting the stage for that movement.]

Answer 1

1)

• Darwin says that the organism that is more fit will survive better.
• In tough consequences , the organisms which have enhanced survival skills adapt easily and has higher survival rates compared to other organisms which have lower survival rates.
• Thus, enhanced survival rates are necessary for an organism to becomemore fit.

2)

• Natural selection in country is were the country undergoes physical change by certain factors like opening of borders causes migration of other people.
• Because of this the population in the country gets affected and there exists a competition between the immigrants and residents of the country. Only those people who can able to overcome the problems become fit to survive in the country.
• Similarly , climatic change causes change in the environment which affects the species of earth.
• Only those species that are fit survive.
• Thus , natural selection in country and climatic change are related.