ACCHS Biology - Week 4

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa... What are your thoughts?

I do not believe in this. I believe that all things were created as it is.. animals of it kind were created separately, while humans of its kind were created separately... Chimps and Humans may share similar dna... about 98.8% the same according to scientists. But I do not subscribe to this theory that they both came from the same ancestry. I believe that there is more that needs to be proven and determined. Everything up to this point on this subject is theory and speculation based on the best assumptions humans can come up with. How did we evolve while the chimps or bonobos (which shared similar dna) have not? Could there be other explanation? Could there be other theories we have rejected or not explored? What if the bible was right?

In a Livescience article titled "Chimps vs. Humans: How Are We Different?", it noted some differences between the two.

"The chimpanzee genome was sequenced for the first time in 2005. It was found to differ from the human genome with which it was compared, nucleotide-for-nucleotide, by about 1.23 percent. This amounts to about 40 million differences in our DNA, half of which likely resulted from mutations in the human ancestral line and half in the chimp line since the two species diverged. From those mutations come the dramatic differences in the species that we see today — differences in intelligence, anatomy, lifestyle and, not least, success at colonizing the planet."

(https://www.livescience.com/15297-chimps-humans.html)



Gaia Theory?

According to the website, Gaiatheory.org, it states the Gaia Theory "offers insights into climate change, energy, health, agriculture, and other issues of great importance. The Gaia Paradigm describes a productive confluence between scientific understandings of Earth as a living system with cultural understandings (ancient and new) of human society as a seamless continuum of that system.

(http://www.gaiatheory.org/)

In Wikipedia, it describes Gaia Theory proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.