Evolution
Uploaded by harleywench on Sep 14, 1999
Like the biblical hero Adam, a single cell let part of it's body become another being, now one of a pair. Like the heroin Eve this duplicate created more of it's species. These multiplying cells joined together into a legacy long in running. The history of our evolution is dark, we fumble for answers yet still need more light to unlock the mysteries beneath. One must remember that when speaking of the theory of evolution one is not only referring to humans but to other species of the kingdom Animalia as well.
Some of the most prominant evolutionary theories of all time can be found in Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species'. His conclusions linked homo sapiens skeletal systems to an ungodly creature, Primates such as apes, gorillas, and monkeys were found to be closely linked to the evolved human of the time. Within 500,000 years time, he claimed, that we had evolved from Australopithicus Ramidus to the present Homo Sapiens that we are catoragized as. He sums the entire evolutionary theory up by stating in his book, "We must....acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, sympathy, benevolence, and god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system itself-with all these exalted powers-Man still bears in his bodily frame the incredible stamp of his lowly origin."
This statement may be backed by any number of appeals, yet one must ring forth as the answer. Survival of the Fittest, the natural idea that any single being in a species will survive if it is the best at hunting, existing, and passing down it's gene pool. These "super" animals, inside a single species, may have developed some sort of genetic mutation allowing for easier grip on prey, faster movement, quicker reflexes, or just plainly made them more attractive to the opposite sex in their species. In any case, this mutation, this freak of nature, has caused the animals to live, and breed, and pass down it's mutation to it's offspring.
When a primitive Homo Habillis gave birth to young that could eventually stand taller and straighter than it's ancestors was anything marvelous thought of it? When this taller primate gave birth to increasingly upright offspring, again, was anything marvelous thought of that? Yet finally when an adult Homo Habillis stood vertically enough to reach fruit on the trees, to use more force than it's...