What is the theme for the book skellig?
family relationships, fighting illness, evolution
Why is evolution a unifying theme?
Because everything evolved from a simple unicellular organism. Biology is a science which studies living organisms and how they interact with each other and their environment. You should learn to spell.
Why is evolution the central theme in biology?
Life changes over time and those inherited genetic changes are filtered through a nonrandom or natural selective process that keeps populations adapting to their living conditions. Evolutionary change is descent with modification in response to the selective pressures of the population's entire environment. This is how species come to adapt into symbiotic communities as well as the predator/prey & pathogen/host communities and every other ecological niche. Molecular phylogenetics attempts to reconstruct the evolutionary history of genes and organisms. Understanding relationships between closely and distantly related organisms shows how biological processes, occurring at many levels of life's hierarchy, changed to work as they do. This assists in understanding development, behavior, epidemiology, ecology, conservation biology, and lets us use rational design in developing drugs and lets us use DNA fingerprints in criminal science. Genetic ancestry and pharmacogenomics are the future of modern medicine- evolved genetic differences produce variable responses to medications. Some individual variations in drug responses occur in a much higher frequency in some populations. Studies of the variation in the human genome have potential for a personal medical application based on these known changes in frequency. Creating haplotype maps for drug responses will lower the incidence of adverse drug reactions and fine-tune the ability to prescribe correct dosages. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/7933/... http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Hu... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer... http://www.pharmgkb.org/
What is the theme of the book " The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate"?
How about you tell me what you think the theme is and I'll tell you if you're on the right track? I read the book, and loved it. I'd hate to rob you of that opportunity. Edit: It's more both at the same time. She wants to follow the science and her dreams, but she also has to conform to what society expects. Classic coming-of-age story, as you grow up, you realize you can't have everything that you want, but you can pick and choose what's most important and go after that dream. Calpurnia comes to terms with her dreams and the expectations of others. When I was first learning to find the theme in a story, it helped to have a list of samples that I could go through and see if they fit. Here's one, I'm sure there's tons more lists like this online. http://homeworktips.about.com/od/english...
Check out Eric Beinhocker's book The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. He is an economist who argues that business plans evolve, and he means it in a way very close to what is meant in evolutionary biology. He says, "...we can construct a design space for anything whose design can be represented by a string of symbols..." (p. 235), then goes on to discuss evolution in business plans and other human-designed phenomena. Information systems have designs that can be seen to have evolved, just as business plans have.As Glyn Williams noted in his Quora response, natural evolution requires zillions of "tries" to find a few good results. However, there are at least two ways that these can happen without being too inefficient: 1) Computer modeling of a phenomenon such that the many tries are carried out without the usual time and resource costs, as with genetic algorithms, and 2) the natural tries that have already happened. Evolution of business models, for example, can be studied by looking at what has worked, which modifications in a business model led to greater profits, and the like.In the case of information systems, we have lots of experience with lots of different types of systems, each of which incorporated a variety of modifications that may or may not have led to improvements in performance. Looking at these features is particularly interesting where we consider the human factors in information system use. The "model" of human we have does not change very fast, and by now we know quite a bit about how people process information needs and act on them in relation to information systems. Just yesterday I was sitting in a lecture on Europeana, the new Europe-wide digital library of European cultural resources, and they are re-discovering things we learned about people and information systems in the 1980's and 1990's. I guess you could say that reading the literature closely is another way of discovering the various "tries" that have been made in the past. Sometimes effective modifications are overlooked while still other new modifications are tried. In that sense, humans are inefficient too! Nonetheless, finding ways to take advantage of the evolutionary approach can have valuable results.
In mid 19th century, when the world was almost explored by various adventurers, England, Spain, Norway etc. spend money on making the sailors and researchers go on remote islands filled with medicines in the form of trees and plants of the jungle. Idea was to procure this medicine and poison to make a fortune. One of the ship sent was the Scientist and Admiral Robert Fitzroy.Though a good scientist himself, Robert (Left) was no good at Geology, Biology, Zoology etc. So he hired an all time failure guy named Charles Darwin(Right) on a 5 year long journey.A usual failure Darwin, who finally decided to be a Father at the Church decided to accept the offer. A journey started in 1831, Darwin along with Fitzroy and his crew, landed on an island Galapagos, east of South America.As a student of Christianity, Darwin knew that, God created world around 4000BC and the process lasted a week. During that week, all the animals came on the Earth, elephants, giraffes, rats, monkeys, whales, even humans.But what Darwin saw on Galapagos was different. He saw that on the Northern Island of Galapagos, the type of Turtles had Semi Hemispherical Shells (Left Image) while the Southern Turtles had the shell but the shell near the neck was curved upwards (Right Image). Darwin deduced that the southern turtles ate cactus which was on more height than usual. So on thousand of years of evolution, their neck got longer and shell became curved to ease the process.Then he noted various examples of the same on Galapagos Island.That was the basis of Evolution Theory.Sources:Travelling to the Galapagos Island (BBC Documentary)On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
There aren't "themes and symbols" in the way that most books have them.The Brothers Grimm weren't authors.The "Grimm Project" was basically a project by a pair of German academics (who happened to be brothers) to document a collection of oral tradition stories in a methodical way.They certainly weren't aimed at children. When Disney tells "Snow White" in a family-friendly way, they chose to omit, for example, the scene where the wicked stepmother is tortured to death at Snow's wedding.As such, any "themes" that emerge are more a reflection of 19th Century German culture, rather than "literary themes."Woods are dangerous placesThe settings are predominantly ruralSpinning gets mentioned a lot, but probably because women would talk, thus propagating the tales, while carry out tedious domestic work (like spinning), but also because it was something that got done, routinely, in the houseKings and Princes get mentioned, because that was the contemporary form of government.