Chapter 1:
In Dawkins book, he warns us to stay away from two major misconceptions about evolution first that different people arose from different ancestors, he explains that all humans all arose from one common ancestor, and through adaptations, humans evolved to appear different. The second misconception is that we should not generalize where humans arose from because we do not know where they arose from.
Chapter 2:
Dawkins introduces two concepts to partially explain where humans might have evolved from. First he talks about mtDNA Eve, whom is believed to have lived in Africa. It is also believed that Eve gave rise to the female population, because the mtDNA is does not get shuffled so it would be identical to all females that are related. Dawkins also introduces Y-chromosomes which is supposed to explain the male side of the evolutionary story, because similarly to mtDNA it is not changed during development.
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Dawkins also says not to assume there are patterns!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nina. You forgot to mention the pattern thing but you cover the basic of the book.
ReplyDeleteYOu covered the main ideas, but like the two above me dont forget that Dawkins did say that we like to assume there are patterns in evolution when its random.
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