Blog #1

Darwin states that by crossing a few aboriginal species we can only come up with the intermediate of the parents. This is true because of genes. When you cross two different species you get half of the genes from one species and half from the other to create a new breed of animal. They have similarities to the parents but are not exactly the same. If it was possible to cross to different animals and come up with the same animal that you started with the species would eventually die out.
Dawkin rephrases “survival of the fittest” to “survival of the stable”. He states that a stable thing is “a collection of atoms that is permanent enough or common enough to deserve a name” (Dawkin, 12). Everything surviving today, that we find we must name, is stable and made of atoms. The survival of stable objects is so much bigger than just saying that the fittest survive when objects are made of atoms and molecules that house DNA that control life.
Ecology plays a role in the domestication of the dog because it helps with behavior. If a dog has a lot of competition for food in the environment it is more likely to have an aggressive behavior. If there is a lack of food in the environment, the dog would have to find other means of acquiring it, such as interacting with humans for scrapes of food. This interaction with humans could have lead to the domestication of the dog because the dogs would have to become tamer around the humans to get food they needed.