You Hsieh Chen

Melissa Schaefer
ANTH 1020
8/1/2017
Signature Assignment Reflection

Closest to the gorilla, chimpanzee and the last common ancestor of mankind, can
be unearthed by Kenya Nakashima Naqua and Greece unearthed the Oulian ape as the
representative. Molecular evidence shows that, before 800 million to 4 million years
ago, the first is the gorilla, and then the chimpanzee, from the evolution of the path to
the separation of human beings; human DNA about 98.4% with chimpanzees, which
is relatively single Nucleotide polymorphisms.
The first theory that I think relate to evolutionary is natural selection, natural
selection means that the genetic characteristics of organisms in the survival of
competition, because of a certain advantage or a disadvantage, and thus differences in
viability, and thus lead to differences in reproductive capacity, making these features
are saved. And the second theory is gene flow, that means that in the group of
genetics, it refers to the transfer of genes or alleles from one population to another, the
process of transfer may be accomplished through the migration of animal populations
the drift of plant pollen. The third one is microevolution, that refers to a group after a
few generations after the generation of small-scale allele frequency changes, the
degree of variation for species or species below. This mutation may go through some
processes: mutation, natural selection, gene flow and gene drift. I believe those
theories are related to humans evolution.
For me, I deeply believe that theory can affect humans evolution. First, take the
natural selection for example, by use natural selection it can die out those species that
who did not fit this environment. And there are many experiments, were verity that
humans evolution.
So, in my case, I think I change a lot though by human evolution, before taking
this class, we always are told that human are the evolution from gorilla or monkey
when I was the child. So we just think that is true, on the other hand, cannot say that is
totally wrong, in some aspects, it, was kind of true, but not really one hundred percent
right. But by taking this class, I got that human is not the straight evolution from the
gorilla. And the most influential activity is the paleoanthropology, cause in that
activity, I would like to know who is exactly in which group, or something like that.
I think that can connect in our daily life a lot, for example, we can tell our
children what is the real evolution process. Before taking this class, I already know
something about Darwins theory when I was in high school, but the thing that I did
not know in high school is the humans evolution.