This ability for organic systems to store energy is due to their highly complex physical characteristics that they do not share with inorganic systems. The developments of these characteristics do not inherently cause the organism to store energy, but they do enable that organism to store energy. ... This is due to a rather complex process that is unique to higher developed animals and plants. ... Theistic philosophers referred to these characteristics as "creative flashes". ... These new characteristics are enabling conditions of the development of rational thought. ...

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Interestingly enough, one of the most unique characteristics about children is their simple acuteness to ideas. ... French scientist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1774-1829), in his process of studying animals attributed what he called "the inheritance of acquired characteristics" (Bioweb, n.d.). ... Two important points to confer is that Linnaeus derived his scientific evidence from the foundation of the Bible "earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1...

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Evolution is the natural process through which organism have acquired their characteristics, structure and function. The past few centuries have witnessed a thorough inventory of the million or more species of plants and animals living today, as well as the thousands of extinct species. ... How can the many similarities and differences among plants and animals be explained? ...

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I)Darwin's Dilemma A)Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 for a cruise around the world 1)He was well educated and had a strong interest in natural history 2)He also had keen powers of observation and an analytical mind 3)Each place he went he collected animal and plant specimens to his collection (a)He examined his specimens and filled notebooks with his observations B)Throughout the voyage he witnessed countless wonders of nature 1)He demanded explanations for these wonders II)The Diversity of Life A)When Darwin visited tropical South America he saw countless species 1)In one ...

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Drought diminishes supplies of easily cracked nuts but permits the survival of plants that produce larger, tougher nuts. ... Over time, their descendants will tend to increase, changing the average characteristics of the population. ...

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Aboard the Beagle, Darwin realized that some of his own observations of fossils and living plants and animals cast doubt on some accepted scientific theories. ... The reasons that scientists want to study the evolution of humans are so that we can understand human diseases, traits and characteristics better and to make predictions as to how humans will evolve in the future. ...

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Sexual selection is natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex. ... Plants had evolved and providing food and other sources to organisms to survive. ...

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