Spiral sample selection

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Along with these issues is one that has sparked controversy in other areas of genetic engineering - lack of genetic diversity. Without genetic diversity, any species of animal or plants runs the risk of being eliminated whereas a species with plenty of genetic diversity allows room for flexibility. If in the future parents have the ability to choose their child's genetic makeup, It is very likely that certain traits, qualities, and characteristics will become more popular than others. Certain types of traits will be passes on from generation to generation and the genetic variation of our human kind could become at risk. Granted, it is far-fetched, however, it is a possibility and the idea of a "perfect" human species, one free from mother nature's flaws, might just be the complete opposite.

One of the arguments against these types of procedures, as well as other genetic modifications, such as cloning of animals and even genetically modified food, its that the process of manipulating the genetic variability of an animal/species and the artificial creation of a new being, or mind in the case of animal cloning, is unethical and should not be allowed. However, one could make the argument that, in this specific case, depriving women the opportunity to treat them and preventing them from potentially having to deal with such a disorder is perhaps even more unethical then the treatment itself.

Just as a the blossom turns into a bloom, the primitive ape of nature become man as we know it today. The evolution of human intelligence can be used as an example of Physis.

Technology is something that humans need and quite frankly would not exist without. It is what makes us the dominant species we are. Humans need technology to survive. We utilize it everyday and, like Heidegger said, it 'is a human activity'. I would venture to go one step further and say that technology makes us human; our intelligence and our ability to improvise and create and innovate is what distinguishes us from the rest of nature. Heidegger's second "definition" of technology is that it is a means to an end. Not only is it a means to an end but it has almost become a requirement of our species. We are constantly creating and improvising much further past the ends we wish to satisfy. These two statements defines technology and not only establishes it as a human activity, but i would venture to say that technology has become a defining characteristic of humans today; it has become something that is intrinsically human.

In this scene, as well as the scenes involving the leopard, hog, and aggression towards the bones of the dead animal, conflict seems to be a main theme; there is always a conflict between two different groups or beings trying to compete. In the example of the leopard attacking the ape, the leopard is competing for food - either the ape wins and eats the leopard and gets to survive or the leopard wins and earns itself dinner and the leopard gets to survive. Or in the scene where the apes with their new technology (bone clubs) take over the watering hole, the two different groups of apes are competing for a resource - water. It would appear that no matter what aspect of the first few scenes you analyze, man, nature, or technology, competition seems to be involved with them all.