GST 104- History and Philosophy of Science

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Sometimes in the past our antecedents slowly evolved in an environment that took care of our needs. Perhaps this period gave rise to our Garden of Eden myth or reality. While our contemporary environment is much too complex and intricate to summarize in a few words, we can examine some of the most salient aspects of it that have a particularly strong influence on our welfare.

The term environment may be defined as all external influences or conditions that is internal to an organisms or group of organisms. The environment cosnsits mainly of two types: abiotic and biotic to which an organism is exposed or could be affected by either positively or negatively.

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