Rin's Evolution Blog

     When it comes to evolution, scientists still have many questions they are trying to find explanations for. Out of the 4 big  questions , the one regarding how evolution produces new and complex features sounded the most interesting to me.      We can see examples of both complex and simple adaptions when we look closely at the biology of different creatures. For example, the eyespot of a Planaria is a simple organ in comparison to that of the multi-part human eye. The eyespots on Planaria are used to sense light and dark while human eyes provide complete true vision.      There are several ways that scientists theorize these complex adaptations evolve, and the two discussed in this article are advantageous intermediates and co-opting. The theory of advantageous intermediates states that there were intermediate stages that were subtly advantageous for an organism before leading to the fully-fledged complex adaption. Going back ...

Hello and welcome to my blog!  My name is Korinne, or Rin , Burkhart and I am currently a senior at OSU. I am majoring in General Biology and hope to find a job within the microbiology subfield after graduation. I am originally from California and lived in the same small town for 18 years before attending CSU Fullerton. After most of my family moved out to Oklahoma, I decided to transfer here to OSU, and I am now planning to graduate this winter.  In my free time, I enjoy doing digital art , and would love to do commissions as a side job in the future when I am more happy with my work.  One thing from this week's opening materials that I found particularly interesting was in regards the football field analogy. Visualizing the Earth's entire history across 100 yards truly puts into perspective how recently humans have appeared.