DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Chapter 1 - Finding Your Inner Fish 1. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. They chose to focus on 375 million year old rock because fish and amphibians found a few million years earlier‚ fish withou2t amphibian characteristics were found and a few million years later creatures with amphibian characteristics
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The Universe Within By Neil Shubin In these three chapters one of the main points regularly discussed was climate; particularly cold climate and how it changes over time. In these chapters he discussed Louis Agassiz‚ who created the ice age theory‚ James Croll‚ who reasoned the ice age due to orbit and position of Earth‚ and Milutin Milankovitch‚ who used Croll’s idea and confirmed Agassiz’s. He also explained how because of Earth’s distance from the Sun and it’s angle Earth’s climate and ice ages
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INNER FISH CHAPTER 1 1. The author and his colleagues wanted to use 375 million old rock‚ because in the 385 million year old rocks they found what look like fish. In the 365 million year old rocks they found amphibians that did not look like fish‚ so to find the change the look at the 375 million year old rock to find transition between the two. In their paleontology work in 2004 they found sedimentary rocks in Pennsylvania and on the east coast of Greenland‚ but their most successful rock was
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Evolution: What is evolution? Over time‚ through millions of years plants and animals have changed over time‚ in order to increase their chances of survival as well as to adapt to their environment. Evolution doesn’t happen overnight‚ in a couple of days‚ weeks‚ months‚ or years. It is a slow process that takes a very long time to notice. “The word evolution can be used in many ways‚ but in biology‚ it means descent with modification. In other words‚ small modifications that occur at the genetic
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In the mid-twentieth century‚ biologists were doing experiments with chicken eggs‚ cutting up the embryos and grafting tissues to other places to figure out what would happen if embryos’ development was interfered with. Chicken eggs were perfect for these experiments; they were large enough for biologists to carefully choose which parts to cut up and graft‚ protected by the eggshell‚ and available in large quantities everywhere. These experiments would become important to scientists studying evolution
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poem‚ “The Fish‚” a reader can enjoy the very specific analysis of a fish. While it may seem confusing‚ there are certainly multiple ways of possibly interpreting this poem. The poem is a continuous‚ with no stanzas‚ description of a fish and also the relationship between her and the fish. While it may be gruesome and overly-descriptive‚ it leaves many questions for the reader. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem‚ “The Fish” she uses similes‚ adjectives‚ and imagery to show the significance of inner beauty in
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about this topic is that a fish called a stickleback found in the ocean‚ ended up also being found in a lake. The stickleback fish found in the ocean has fins on its belly which look like spikes and the stickleback fish found in the lake didn’t have any signs of spikes. However‚ there is a sign of traces of bone from where the spikes where located. They noticed that the left side was bigger than the right side. I was shocked when they showed a picture of the stickleback fish from the lake with the traces
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Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson Dr. Tyson was born and raised in New York City. At a very early age he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He was fascinated by the stars and the study of space. He would stare at the stars and moon through binoculars and at the age of nine his eyes were truly opened up to the stars when he visited the Old Hayden Planetarium. As a child he studied at Bronx High School of Science‚ he received his BA in physics from Harvard‚ a master’s degree from the University of Texas at
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Isabel Fish Essay Even though many people have regrets‚ you have to realize you can’t hold them in if you want to move on. In “The Isabel Fish” by Julie Orringer Sage and Maddy lost their friend‚ Isabel‚ and both siblings have regrets about it. So to cope with their loss they both fight with each other and ever blame each other for Isabel’s death. Even though Maddy and Sage have been fighting for months‚ once they communicate with each other about their regrets‚ they are able to put their problems
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ELIZABETH BISHOP ’S "THE FISH" Elizabeth Bishop is a poet that is often admired for her vivid descriptive poetry. Her interest in reading and writing came early in life as she suffered from several illnesses that caused her to spend many hours alone. (Gale) Many critics admire Bishop ’s objectivity "because she was interested in viewing details spontaneously‚ without imposed rationalizations‚ in the manner of a naturalist" (Gale). Bishop is also known for writing poems about ordinary experiences
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