Are humans interfering with or a part of evolution happening today?

Choose any TWO topics 1-4. Write an essay on it and it must contain atleast 250 words each words.

Discussion topic will be updated periodically.

1. There were several pre-Darwin explanations of evolution. Choose any one or a few of these and compare them to the accepted Darwin theory of Natural selection.

2. Choose any genetic disorder. Discuss the cause (ex: insertion, deletion, inversion, translocation or whole chromosome issue), signs, symptoms and degrees of the disease.

3. Choose a trait that goes beyond Mendel’s one trait inheritance. Discuss the inheritance (ex. Incomplete dominance, multiple allele, polygenic, pleiotrophy, linkage, environmental influences), the different phenotypes or anything else that deviates from simple genetics. Mendel got lucky with the traits he chose in his pea plants. If he got more complicated traits and inheritance it would have made his findings almost impossible to come to. Talk about how these traits would have made it hard for scientists like Mendel to figure out inheritance the way he did.

4. Are humans interfering with or a part of evolution happening today? Find examples of evolution seen in recent history that could be caused by human activity.