Various Theories

              In chapter two of The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins introduces his audience with his belief about evolution. He presents his theory by highlighting that evolution is neither a good nor bad thing for humanity. However, he does focus on the fact that evolution is a mistake. It is the outcome of a series of miscopying on behalf of the genes. He expands his theory by comparing it to the ancient coping of the Gospel. By explaining how there was an original copy, and how as it’s being copied scribes are bound to make mistakes. Nevertheless, what is destined to happen when copies are made from other copies is a series of accumulative mistakes. Evolution therefore, is the outcome of these mistakes.

            One the other hand, Jean Baptiste Lamarck a very recognized scientist, is known to have a different understanding towards why evolutions happens.  He describes his theory by explaining that evolution happens due to the same organisms trying to adapt themselves to their environment and its alternations.  These changes in the organisms are passed to the next generation allowing it to have a higher probability of survival. These two ideas can be very contradictory however, they both arrive to the same point, evolution. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.