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Read : Could Evolution Bring Back Dinosaurs??
https://www.livescience.com/64586-could-evolution-bring-back-dinosaurs.html
Questions to Respond To
How is evolution affecting us/our world right now, as we speak?

3 PAGES: Instructions
For this final paper, you must be more formal than with your past weekly journal/reflection papers. The topic for your final paper is Evolution.  Despite evolution’s potential for personal controversy, it is an essential element of biology and our natural world. In this paper, you will outline your response to a hypothetical situation by presenting your supporting arguments and summarizing your conclusion.

Hypothetical Situation
Imagine on the first day during which your class is discussing evolution, a fellow student says to you, “I don’t believe in evolution or that it creates new species of organisms.”
What would you say back to this student? Do you agree with them? Does the scientific evidence agree with them? Why or why not?
Support your response to the student with the scientific concepts we are learning about in class.

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10 years ago, a hominid skeleton was unearthed on an island in the South Pacific. It is remarkably different than anything discovered.

Write a 3 page (minimum!) paper addressing the following:

Is it a new species or an individual with a random mutation?

After you read the articles posted below, explain which side you believe and why you think the other isn’t plausible. Be sure to justify your answers with supportive research.

Article 1: “HOBBIT” 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hobbit-skeleton-challenges-evolution/

Article 2: “LITTLE LADY OF FLORES FORCES RETHINK”
https://www.nature.com/articles/4311029a.epdf?referrer_access_token=jQ4oiiGcMBIHCZiyKv4bu9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pzi9xu8k5VtXSYsDdGWOTQOGuyqLx1s5bDLTIJcWfK_I_B29zRdulIYMkWsSkRo5k%3D

Article 3: “THE FLORES FIND”
https://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/news041025-4.html

Article 4: Human Evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/4311043a.epdf?referrer_access_token=FtLSRj9F9zuhxTZWpLX779RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M7CPLowvGnFIktTD8jXiIINj4bSgg3D9uYsxtBn4VPqEIS3U583iJN2xnvCHimK_M%3D

Article 5: Flores, God, Cryptozoology
https://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/news041025-2.html