Charles Darwin's work is not a new subject for me. Having taken AP Bio last year, I feel as though the subjects of natural selection, mutualism, polymorphism, divergence, and convergence have been drilled into me. We read The Beak of the Finch, which followed Darwin's discoveries in the Galapagos Islands and covered all of the major themes of biology. Even so, the idea of natural selection is a magnificent concept.
"Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure" (185).
Nature works in astounding ways. Man cannot escape the systematic and pragmatic workings of nature. Organisms evolve and improve based on small advantageous changes over generations. Organisms do not just appear out of thin air. No matter how many times the idea of natural selection is discussed in my classes, it doesn't get old. Mother Nature is a powerful lady.
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