Week 2 Blog 4

Grace Leung
2/11/11
Western Civ

1.     Does history progress? Is an elephant really "better" than a mammoth? 

History does progress because every part of evolution is different, we do not always see the benefit of the progress of history. The evolution of an animal is not always different from the one before it. The mammoth is the father of the elephant, because of the change in the genetics of the animal the look or features change. The mammoth was living around 4,500 years ago, but still somehow is related to the elephant species. The mammoth is described as a hairy, with height around sixteen feet and with big tusks around eleven feet. The elephant is described as a mostly skin animal, around thirteen feet, with tusks of four feet. The huge difference in size and look of these two are astonishing. The mammoth and the elephant are also really similar in shape. This does not make them better than the other. The mammoth is just a bigger animal with a different coat. The elephant is just as useful as the mammoth. Also these two animals are both used for their coats or fur. They are popular among poachers and were used as clothes for the people living in the surrounding areas. Each stage of evolution is different because of the hereditary genes that are passed on, just like humans this does not make one evolution better than the other.