How Did Bill Muir's Experiment Help Us Understand The Theory Of Evolution
Question 1: What happened to Bill Muir's chickens (Chapter 5)? How did he explain his findings? How does his experiment help us understand the Theory of Evolution?
According to Wilson, chickens always live in groups. A capacity of each cage is nine to twelve hen. Two different methods are used to breed the hen increasing the egg production. Bill selected the most productive hen in each cage to breed for the first method and selected all the hen in the most productive cages to breed. After six generations in the first method, the cage containing the most productive hen was only three hen left and nearly featherless. The other six hens were murder. The egg production had decreased during the experiment. In the second method, the cage sill contains …show more content…
To explain this, Wilson claims that the most productive hens achieve their success by suppressing other productivity of their cagemates. This helps Wilson respond to the first his thought experiment. The meanest hen is compared with the evil individual, and another hen is compared to the good individual. Two evil and good individuals are placed in the same place. The evil one will take advantage on the good one getting the benefits to evil one.
In the second method, Bill selected the hens to have cooperative traits that enabled the hens to coexist harmoniously. This experiment is compared with Wilson’s second and third examples. That is, all the good individuals – good hens are placed together in one place and all evil individuals- mean hens are placed in another placed. The evil ones cannot take advantage of good ones. Good individuals have equal chances of producing the egg. Therefore, the productive egg has increased dramatically.
Group of good individuals who inherit good trait will have higher advantage to survive and reproduction than another group. It is likely in evolution. Evolution happens when there is a shift in environmental condition. That time natural selection will choose individuals who higher ability to survive ad reproduction in changing environmental
According to Wilson, chickens always live in groups. A capacity of each cage is nine to twelve hen. Two different methods are used to breed the hen increasing the egg production. Bill selected the most productive hen in each cage to breed for the first method and selected all the hen in the most productive cages to breed. After six generations in the first method, the cage containing the most productive hen was only three hen left and nearly featherless. The other six hens were murder. The egg production had decreased during the experiment. In the second method, the cage sill contains …show more content…
To explain this, Wilson claims that the most productive hens achieve their success by suppressing other productivity of their cagemates. This helps Wilson respond to the first his thought experiment. The meanest hen is compared with the evil individual, and another hen is compared to the good individual. Two evil and good individuals are placed in the same place. The evil one will take advantage on the good one getting the benefits to evil one.
In the second method, Bill selected the hens to have cooperative traits that enabled the hens to coexist harmoniously. This experiment is compared with Wilson’s second and third examples. That is, all the good individuals – good hens are placed together in one place and all evil individuals- mean hens are placed in another placed. The evil ones cannot take advantage of good ones. Good individuals have equal chances of producing the egg. Therefore, the productive egg has increased dramatically.
Group of good individuals who inherit good trait will have higher advantage to survive and reproduction than another group. It is likely in evolution. Evolution happens when there is a shift in environmental condition. That time natural selection will choose individuals who higher ability to survive ad reproduction in changing environmental