Q: Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation.

The discipline emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis (of the 1930s) of understanding from several previously unrelated fields of biological research, including genetics, ecology, systematics and paleontology.

Current research has widened to cover the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution including sexual selection, genetic drift and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryonic development is controlled, thus creating a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis.

Evolution is the central unifying concept in biology. Biology can be divided in various ways. One way is by the level of biological organisation, from molecular to cell, organism to population. An earlier way is by perceived taxonomic group, with fields such as zoology, botany, and microbiology, reflecting what were once seen as the major divisions of life. A third way is by approach, such as field biology, theoretical biology, experimental evolution, and paleontology. These alternative ways of dividing up the subject can be combined with evolutionary biology to create subfields like evolutionary ecology and evolutionary developmental biology.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is a unifying concept?
2. Of what science?
3. Can it be split up into different ways?
4. Name one?
5. Can you provide an example?
6. And another example, please?
7. Is there another type of grouping?
8. And it is?
9. Example, please
10. And another?
11. Any more?
12. What are these known as?
13. Is there a third way to divide the science?
14. What is that?
15. How many examples can you provide?
16. Who helped develop the synthesis?
17. When?
18. Were the fields related?
19. What is the new field called?
20. And the abbreviated form is?
A: 1. evolution
2. biology
3. yes
4. level of biological organization
5. from molecular to cell
6. organism to population
7. yes
8. perceived taxonomic group
9. zoology
10. botany
11. microbiology
12. major divisions of life
13. yes
14. by approach
15. Four
16. Julian Huxley
17. 1930s
18. no
19. Evolutionary biology
20. evo-devo
Q: This week, 46-year-old Randy Pausch said goodbye to his students at Carnegie Mellon University with the last lecture called "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams" on his life's journey and the lessons he's learned. In the lecture, he showed the audience how serious his illness was and admitted it was "an elephant in the room", but he was not that discouraged and he made jokes in his lecture. Randy is not just another story on Good Morning America or even on the local news here in Pittsburgh. He is a man I worked for, a Professor of Liam's and a friend of the family. Randy is dying of Pancreatic cancer and in his words only has "3 to 6 months of quality life".

We met Randy about 5 years ago when Liam and I went to a Building Virtual Worlds show. Liam was hooked and applied to get his master under Randy at the Entertainment and Technology Center or ETC. Randy even came to our home for Liam's graduation party and earlier that year we saw the Flying Karamazov Brothers with him and his wife Jaye. Liam got to know Randy as a professional over the course of two years as a graduate student and then as a faculty member. Randy has three children all under the age of 6. Dillon, his oldest, Ross is younger and the youngest is only 9 months old, Lily. I believe Randy is a good man for a few simple reasons. He gave my husband a future doing something he loves, and he was a kind boss, but the thing I admire most about Randy is that you always know where you stand with him. He may be blunt and harsh at times but you know he is honest. He will be greatly missed at Carnegie Mellon. I wish Jaye and the children the best that life has to offer. Please click on the above underlined link and watch his inspiring lecture. It will be worth your time.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the last lecture called?
2. What is the age of Randy Pausch?
3. Where did he gave her last lecture?
4. Is he having any disease?
5. Which?
6. How much time is he having?
7. Who is Liam?
8. How many children is Randy having?
9. What are there names?
A: 1. "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams"
2. 46
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. Yes
5. Pancreatic cancer
6. 3 to 6 months
7. A friend and student
8. .Randy has three children
9. Dillon, Ross Lily.
Q: Renacimiento, Mexico (CNN) -- As raging floodwaters swept away half of his timber shack, Saturnino Medina climbed to the roof.

He pointed Thursday to the place where river waters broke through a container wall and washed away his kitchen.

Medina and his family have almost nothing left now, after the wind and rain of Manuel hit the town of Renacimiento, located about 20 km northeast of the resort city of Acapulco.

Days after the storm made landfall as a tropical depression in the Mexican state of Guerrero, thousands of tourists are still trapped in Acapulco and thousands of families are struggling to recover.

Medina and his family were left to eat eggs and tortillas donated by neighbors and drink expired cartons of juice they found in a nearby trash dumpster. So far, he said, they haven't gotten any government aid.

"The truth is, I don't even know what to tell you," he said. "The government ignores us. They help everyone else, but they've forgotten about Renacimiento."

The town is one of many across Mexico ravaged by multiple storms that have been battering the country.

Federal officials say at least 97 people were killed across Mexico by Manuel, which plowed into the country's Pacific coast, and Ingrid, which hit the Gulf coast.

Rescue efforts continued throughout the country Thursday. In one Guerrero town ravaged by a mudslide, authorities said 68 people remained unaccounted for.

An aerial survey revealed many more mudslides, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said, and there are additional reports of disappearances that authorities have not yet confirmed.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where is Renacimiento in reference to Acapulo?
2. What did the family consume?
3. And drink?
4. Was the family happy with the help received from the government?
5. What created this dire situation for the family?
6. Was the damaged all caused by wind?
7. What else caused damage?
8. How many lives were lost due to the storm?
9. In what country?
10. What type of disaster hit another town?
11. In what place?
A:
1. 20 km northeast
2. eggs and tortillas
3. expired cartons of juice
4. no
5. Storm Manuel
6. no
7. Rain too
8. 97 by Manuel and Ingrid
9. Mexico
10. a mudslide,
11. a town in Guerrero