Common Ancestors And Genetic Sequencing

This week we learned about how after the initial creation of life, how it progressed and changed and became what it is today. We learned about how to read a phylogenetic tree and how the things on the tree relate to one another. We also learned how genetic sequences are used to see how related two […]

Reflecting Upon Natural Selection

Having taken biology courses in the past I have a pretty strong understating of natural selection and how it works. The main conclusion that this week brought me too was that evolution can happen faster than one would think. Both the finches and the mice we heard about adapted in a very short amount of […]