Book Review

Cameron Marlin

Ms. Terrell

Pre-AP English 11

30 April 2010

The Great Ideas of Science

The book I read was Evolution, The Great Ideas of Science, by Paul Fleisher. This book explains a lot of different theories of evolution. The main theory they talked about in this book was Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin studied thousands of different species, he showed that no two species are the exactly alike. He realized that over millions of years traits tend to change and adapt to the environment of the species. Each year genetic discoveries are made to give proof that Darwin's theory is true.

This book relates with my topic because evolution is my topic. Darwin's theory of evolution is on of the most famous of all evolution theories. This book had different theories of evolution, but the one that they talked about the most and the one that they made everyone believe is true, is Darwin's theory. This book really helped me out because it had so much information on evolution. Now I believe that that Darwin's theory is real because of all the details and all of the statistics that scientist show about his theory. Another thing that Darwin's theory tells us is that people and animals get more and more adapted to their environment more and more each day.

Then, when people or animals reproduce, there children are more adapted than they are. They get traits and genetics that help them survive and reproduce in their own envirement. He was also right when he said absolutely no two creatures are the same, in this entire world. Even twins are not excactly the same. Charles Darwin helped many scientist, the scientist were pretty much positive that species changed over time, they just didnt know how. But with Darwin's theory of evolution they can figure out how these species change with a long amount of time.

Fleisher, Paul. Evolution, Great Ideas of Science. Minneapolis, Minnisota: Twenty First Century Books, 2006. 81. Print.

Evidence of Evolution: 3rd Critical Source

Cameron Marlin

Ms. Terrell

Pre-AP English 11

9 April 2010

Evolution's Evidence?

The chapter "Of Time and Change" in the book The Evidence of Evolution by Nicholas Hotton starts off by telling us the main phrase that sums up the history of man, "When do we eat?" (Hotton 7). Life has evolved over billions of years, from a microscopic bit of sea-born jelly to more than 1.25 million different species. All living things, no matter how different they are, are closely related to each other. Modern evolutionary theory was first set forth in detail by an English naturalist, Charles Robert Darwin, a little more than one hundred years ago. Evolution is a very controversial role in changing a man's view of the universe. The earliest sucsessful attempt to compare the bone structure of a man with another vertebrate was done by Pierre Belon in 1955.


This Chapter of The Evidence of Evolution connects with my topic by, talking about how evolution has changed over billions of years. All living things are related to each other. Pierre Belon is a french biologist that studys the difference in the anatomy of a big bird from the 1500's to a human body. There were simalarities in the shape, and function of the leg joints and heels, of hands and wings, rib cages, and feet and claws. Charles Darwin is one of the most famouse English naturalist that studied evolution ever. There was also a German biologist, Ernst Haeckel, who created the biogenetic law, that in the embryo an organism passes through a series of stages repeating the evolutionary history of its ancestry.

Hotton, Nicholas The Evidence of Evolution, New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc, 1968. 160. Print.