i. Why does Darwin believe that nature has put such a premiumupon the enhanced survival skills of certain creatures?
ii. Darwin compares natural selection to a country undergoingsome form of climate change. How does he say that such an exampleand climate change are similar?
iii. Darwin argues that the hand of \"natural selection is dailyand hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightestvariations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding upall that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever andwhere opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic beingin relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.\" IfDarwin is correct, how come we don't see people, animals, and otherorganisms morphing before our eyes?
iv. What makes leaf-eating insects green, bark-eating insectsmottled grey, and gives hawks such good eyesight? What happened tothe insects of the wrong color or the near-sighted hawks?
v. How could this view of the role(s) played by the laws ofnature upon the rest of the animal kingdom (yes, you are a part ofthe animal kingdom: the ape family) be interpreted to apply tohuman interactions? After reading this kind of expose, what reasonmight some give for poverty, disease, or the domination of onepeople over another? [I do not mean to suggest that it should beapplied, completely, to the understanding of human interactions,but some did, and I am setting the stage for that movement.]