Module 4.2 Time to Reflect!

So far I have developed a better understanding of what is and what evolution is not. With that, I have also learned about the different concepts and theories that influence evolution as well, such as fitness, allele frequencies, heritability, and much much more. One thing that I really do appreciate about this class so far is how the professor and TA's ask us to dig deeper in our thought processes and how they push us maybe approach a situation in a different way than we would originally. As a science major, many of my classes tend to be black and white but thus far in this evolution class, I feel like I am starting to broaden my ideas and considerations to aspects I would not usually think about. My original blog post about my interpretation of evolution was that it is "a biological process where a specific species' genome alters to where that new alteration can be then passed down to future generations". In all honesty, I still stand by my original description of what I believe evolution is but I might also include that the rate at which evolution can occur varies drastically amongst different species. Before I felt that a certain amount of generations had to pass in order for evolution to occur but now I know that evolution can occur in just one generation or it can take thousands. The concept that I am still struggling with is just figuring out how to maneuver around the "R" exercises. I have never been very good with computers/typing/excel but I have reached out to my professor/TA's recently and believe I am slowly getting better at "R". Some concepts that I look forward to are applying evolution to the human species and being able to maybe even predict future evolutional theories and ideas.