/sci/ - Science & Math

What is the best textbook for the history of all prehistoric life? Basically a chronological explanation of everything in the evolutionary tree, every main group and large leap in biological technology

Hey, biology fags, halp me.

I swear this is not another religious bullshit, but what are the evidences that prove evolution is not only a genetic similarity between living beings?
Because I'm sure a lot of people who believe in evolution today think the scale of complexity and similarity between living beings is somewhat a prove for evolution, which is not exactly.

Say yes. There is no logical reason why the qualitative experience of love cannot be equivalent to an extraordinarily complex causal system of events.

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Evolution is not a process that develops complexity; complexity is inherent in systems with interacting parts. Evolution is a process that restricts the behavior of systems (i.e. death to poorly functioning outliers).
> Complex organism around as a function of time and it'll increase exponentially
Behavior =/= computation, also that does not make sense
Pic related, this is complexity, your graph does not show development/growth/behavior/complexity

Hey /sci/
Let's talk about some science.
>How did meiosis evolve?
The existing theories are weak and speculative, and pretty much boil down to "it evolved from mitosis". So let's discuss. Can you think of any ways the intermediate stages of meiosis could have benefited an organism? And for that matter, let's speculate on what exactly those intermediate stages were? Also how were the benefits of sexual reproduction so much as to drive this complex process to evolve?

>inb4 biology isn't science

I was going to type it all out, but you guys don't want to hear my shit, so long story short if I don't pass the test in link below by this December then I wont be able to leave my shitty community college for a uni.

I'm halfway through a remedial math course right now (I think it's the equivilent of algebra 2) because I was a fucktard in highschool and didn't learn anything. Is it possible for me to learn this stuff fast enough to be able to make a 90+ on that test by December? If so, got any tips?

And most of all, how do I learn to enjoy math? I don't hate it, but I'm just so bad it can seem overwhelming sometimes. I love science, and I understand if I want to work with it I'll have to be pretty good at math, but I just can't really get into it.

I'm writing a research argument on the existence of aliens. What are some key points and things I should focus on?

Are there more diagrams like this one?

Mutations. Life competing with itself. Every organism is in fact an ogranism-environment, since anything an organism is doing must be explained in terms of what the environment is doing . Everything is in fact the same thing, just a different form of the same thing. Everything is interconnected; think of a tree.

I have a hybrid theory.

God created bacteria.
Bacteria evolved into humans.

RECONCILIATION
pic related

death and taxonomies

Found this yesterday here

How do you keep up your scientific self esteem in the face of lots of doubt? I've been reading a large volume of books on a particular subject, (human evolution if you must know) and when it comes up in conversation I bring some of the evidence provided by the books. However, since the body of work is so large (I'm on my third weighty and very technical book) I have to condense it into metaphors and summaries, not really capturing the beauty and the essence of the theory. I then get disagreed with in uneducated ways, and I don't know how to respond.

Should I just shut up with my science? I feel like the best way for these people to get the idea is to read the book, but I don't know if they'd be able to grasp it. Or care.