The theory of evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, providing that diversity has come about among all the organisms of the world through this process called evolution, over millions on millions on millions of years. The process of natural selection determines who will die out, survive, and thrive. Those organisms which happen upon more useful traits like more acute vision and swifter legs get to thrive. Individuals with less favourable traits often die out, unable to overcome selection pressures.
The living world is home to staggering diversity. More than 2 million species of organism have been identified as existing, and estimates as to the number that remain to be identified vary from 10-30 million. From icky bacteria measuring less than a thousandth of a millimetre in diameter to magnificent sequoia trees standing so very tall at up to 100 metres and weighing thousands of tonnes, the biological world is full of marvels.
It seems like there are infinite variations on life. An intimate understanding of this reality was partly how the Proto-Amerindians came up with the Buzz-Concept infinity: to one up nature. Indeed, the human brain is the most complex known object in the universe.
All living creatures are descended from common ancestors – like languages are descended from their mama-tongues & Proto languages, a connection for loyal BCP followers! Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes descend ultimately from aquatic worms that lived 600 million years ago. Every single organism i.e. living thing on the planet derives ultimately from microorganisms resembling bacteria from over 3 billion years ago. The exact trappings of life have been being modified as evolution progresses, culminating in the divergence of all these different species. It all starts with a genetic mutation coding for a feature that then sticks, sometimes happening to enhance the selection advantage of an individual and their descendants. Microorganisms living billions of years ago began to reproduce in multiplicate form, producing organisms made up of more than one cell for the first time. Flash forward, and organisms have evolved to channel their own electricity through nervous systems and brain function to trigger physical exertion and mental acuity. Leaving it there we now have planarian flatworms as the direct descendants of the first organisms to have brains. Meanwhile, Homo sapiens is painstakingly cultivating knowledge with the corresponding potent organs we now understand to be the most complex known objects in the universe, and setting records at the Olympics. Backtrack a little, and we could have had other species of human being. This is what races are: us heading in the directions of becoming separate species.
Different races all thus started with simple mutations, too. Mutations that produced a compelling change in the human population to attract the desire to breed “pedigrees”, so to speak, from them. A striking truth is that what it means to have “good genes” constitutes a deviation from the human evolutionary norm. Indeed, the notion of genetic superiority within human populations has arisen from mutations causing heirs to detach from the aforementioned norm. The trappings of genetic superiority are indeed weird to onlookers.
So which type of organism best strikes the balance between slaying over selection pressure without being so utterly downright bizarre, from an evolutionary point of view of course?
Sharks.
Sharks belong to the kingdom of Animalia and the phylum of Chordata as humans do, being animals and vertebrates. Sharks are however elasmobranch cartilaginous fish, while humans are mammalian primate hominids.
What the sharks got right: slaying being an organism.
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