Analysis Of What About God Carl Zimmer

This past Thursday we were placed into groups and asked to read Carl Zimmer’s What About God. In his writing, he talked about evolution. Zimmer argued that understanding evolution is essential for field such as geology, biotechnology, and modern medicine. Zimmer provides a thought provoking example of how understanding evolution is essential to creating modern medicine. He writes, “A vaccine may work against one strain of a disease like AIDS, but fail against more common ones because they're only distantly related.” According to evolution, every species started from some single celled organisms, and as time passed these single celled organisms developed different traits. Eventually, these different traits resulted in the millions of different