this is my 500 word essay. My problem is that I am having difficulty sticking to whether I agree or disagree.
For school this essay is suppose to be a persuasive essay and I am concerned that I have written more of an informative essay.
I am not persuaded to either side of this issue so how can I persuade anyone. I believe my essay is agreeing with the survival of the fittest but I can't really finish it off. Tell me what u guys think, and I incourage you to be extremely critical, seriously.
Survival of the Fittest
Through out human existence the term ‘survival of the fittest’ has transformed. For humans, early on have relied on our physical abilities to hunt and gather food and in present day rely more on our intellect to survive. Has our physiological evolution come to a halt? Our intellect through out time has produced several technologies that lead to a sedentary life style and has weakened us physically.
Physical human evolution over time has produced and taken away features to suit our environment. The appendix for example was designed to act as a digestive organ for fibrous carbohydrates such as grass. When we began cooking food and eating other main foods the appendix became unnecessary. One day the appendix may disappear completely. A more important evolutionary step in human survival was the addition of an enzyme called Lipoprotein Lipase. This enzyme’s role has been vital to convert calories to fat and storing them for times when there was no food available for many days. Today in our society there is no need for this enzyme because food is only a drive away. Today we eat so many calories that our body continues to store these calories as fat allowing us to become overweight. In essence, years ago we had to hunt and expend a lot of energy to eat and now we are eating more and as we continue to advance our technology we move less and our bodies cannot evolve fast enough. This is caused by the rapid changes in society and environment affecting the way we live from an active to a sedentary life style.
Our society and environment has changed, our species pre dominantly uses it’s intellect to survive. Through this intellect, we have developed technology to create our perfect world which includes shelter, nutrition, medical care and anti biotics. Every time our bodies become infected with a sickness we drive to the doctor’s office and get a prescription for anti biotics to cure the sickness. This un-intently has caused our species to have weaker immune systems, immune disorder, super bugs and this new flu. In the past our bodies were continually adapting to sicknesses and our immune system became stronger. The people who could not adapt fast enough would not live. The humans who adapted would reproduce and have strong children inheriting those strong genes past along. Through this intellect we have been able to save more lives and increase our numbers.
We take care of our weak and sick to the best of our abilities since it is in our nature that everyone survives. That is why we are successful as a species and have vast numbers across the world. However if everyone survives our gene pool continues to weaken through future generations.
For school this essay is suppose to be a persuasive essay and I am concerned that I have written more of an informative essay.
I am not persuaded to either side of this issue so how can I persuade anyone. I believe my essay is agreeing with the survival of the fittest but I can't really finish it off. Tell me what u guys think, and I incourage you to be extremely critical, seriously.
Survival of the Fittest
Through out human existence the term ‘survival of the fittest’ has transformed. For humans, early on have relied on our physical abilities to hunt and gather food and in present day rely more on our intellect to survive. Has our physiological evolution come to a halt? Our intellect through out time has produced several technologies that lead to a sedentary life style and has weakened us physically.
Physical human evolution over time has produced and taken away features to suit our environment. The appendix for example was designed to act as a digestive organ for fibrous carbohydrates such as grass. When we began cooking food and eating other main foods the appendix became unnecessary. One day the appendix may disappear completely. A more important evolutionary step in human survival was the addition of an enzyme called Lipoprotein Lipase. This enzyme’s role has been vital to convert calories to fat and storing them for times when there was no food available for many days. Today in our society there is no need for this enzyme because food is only a drive away. Today we eat so many calories that our body continues to store these calories as fat allowing us to become overweight. In essence, years ago we had to hunt and expend a lot of energy to eat and now we are eating more and as we continue to advance our technology we move less and our bodies cannot evolve fast enough. This is caused by the rapid changes in society and environment affecting the way we live from an active to a sedentary life style.
Our society and environment has changed, our species pre dominantly uses it’s intellect to survive. Through this intellect, we have developed technology to create our perfect world which includes shelter, nutrition, medical care and anti biotics. Every time our bodies become infected with a sickness we drive to the doctor’s office and get a prescription for anti biotics to cure the sickness. This un-intently has caused our species to have weaker immune systems, immune disorder, super bugs and this new flu. In the past our bodies were continually adapting to sicknesses and our immune system became stronger. The people who could not adapt fast enough would not live. The humans who adapted would reproduce and have strong children inheriting those strong genes past along. Through this intellect we have been able to save more lives and increase our numbers.
We take care of our weak and sick to the best of our abilities since it is in our nature that everyone survives. That is why we are successful as a species and have vast numbers across the world. However if everyone survives our gene pool continues to weaken through future generations.