Charles Darwin "Natural Selection" p559

This selection was very difficult to read to me. Before I began to read the selection I thought it was going to be familiar information because I remembered the topic of natural selection from biology but that wasn't the case. While some information was understandable to me most seem foreign. When I began to read I was confused and didn't really understand the information because of all the metaphors. I did get a little understanding from a couple of points: sexual selection and variations in the different birds. Sexual selection was describing how certain animals are attracted to the stronger male and weak animals will not survive. Variations in the birds depended on their environment. A bird needing a strong short beak would be born with on because that's what the environment called for.