• Question: Do you think that Charles Darwins Discoveries changed our perspective on animals?

    Asked by SD1901 to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Joe Spencer

      Joe Spencer answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      SD1901.
      Definitely yes, Charles Darwin sparked a whole new way of thinking about humans animals and nature. This whole idea of natural selection and evolution was ground breaking at the time. And scientists today still research animals learning so much about the way they interact (as we can’t ask them what they think or feel) but scientists think that animals actually are more like us than we know. There’s evidence to suggest species of whale and primates and lots of animals feel emotions, sadness, happiness etc, and can even empathise with other species in a way we can’t

    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Hi SD1901,

      Yep, agree with Joe, Darwin changed everything in the way we looked out ourselves and the world around us. By understanding evolution, it has also helped us ain a range of fields from palaentology to medicene.

    • Photo: Olivia Lynes

      Olivia Lynes answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I think it got rid of the “us and them” aspect of it. As the process of evolution was explored it stopped being animals and humans and more we all evolved from the same point and ended up in different places.

    • Photo: Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes

      Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Yes, I agree with the others.

      We now know that there are a lot of similarities between our brains and that of other animals in the system that controls movement, which makes it possible learn from animal behaviour about our own movement system.

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