Emily's Take on Evolution

 My perception of evolution has changed quite a bit. Before this course I thought evolution was something of the past not really relevant today. I also thought originally that evolution was super straight forward, you have early life forms and they change into modern ones~ that's it. Boy was I wrong. I learned that evolution is super relevant to life today. Life is constantly changing and adapting even if it's in small ways. The world changes and in order to survive and pass on genes, organisms do as well. Additionally, evolution is not just one thing. It is a culmination of mechanisms working together to produce life the way we see it. Natural selection, mutation, gene drift, migration, and interbreeding only scratch the surface of what goes into this complex topic. Overall, I learned that in science and in life it is important to work critically not just logically. The data might present a theme or a trend but that doesn't mean something occurred that way at all. It is mu...

 Hello everybody, I need one more post and I am out of provided prompts so I decided to use this blog as a way to promote vaccination (even though no one really reads this ha). I highly highly highly encourage getting vaccinated against COVID-19 if you are healthy enough and old enough to do so. You don't have to agree with me, but from what I have seen, the people that are being hospitalized and getting really sick from this virus are the ones who are not vaccinated. I know this is new and very scary, but don't let the media fool you into thinking this is something political or something it isn't. We are talking pure science. Vaccines have saved countless lives throughout history, and it is no different for this one virus. We have proved time and time again the effectiveness of getting vaccinated. Don't let the unknown stop you from using logic. I am really passionate about this topic because I have had so many instances where my friends' family, my coworkers, my a...