Systems

Darwin is very wordy. I'm not a very scientific minded person, but his last line summed up what i was thinking the during most of the reading. 

"these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." 

The complexity of the world around us is really insane. For an art class we used an electron scanning microscope to take images of really small things, and the complexity of some of our simplest items (hair skin etc..) is really amazing. I can't get the picture to work so go here . 

Its also very interesting the amount of adaptation we as humans do socially. What we'll do to fit in or to gain status or prestige can be pretty drastic. Especially here in the first year of college, many things change. People change names they drop old activities and add new ones. We change many things so that we are more comfortable, successful or to fit better with our beliefs. Well...those were my thoughts.