After reading Alters and Alters, it brought me back to a lot of my science and history classes I had from middle school up until college. I remember from those classes the emphasis on separating religion from science. This was a very big problem back then. I believe this was a part of why parents didn’t want evolution being taught in science classes throughout America years ago. The people who only believed in their religion teachings believe that people were created from god. The science believers believed in Charles Darwin evolutionary theory, that man evolved from animals. There were also people who think that they should keep them separate, and those people allowed the teaching of evolution to come back to grade school.  My declared major is Human Development and Family Studies. By just looking at the word development, you can see that it can be related to Charles Darwin’s evolution theory. Human Development and Family Studies is “translational research that is positively impacting children, adolescents, families and marginalized communities.” (hdfs.msu.edu/about). The Department of Human Development and Family Studies includes “current cutting-edge funded research, student training and policy outreach and includes: resiliency in racially diverse adolescents, romantic relationships in young adults, depression risk in adults simulated through technology, sensor technology to understand how children with autism communicate, stress and resiliency in military families, and national justice polices affecting ethnic minority youth.” (hdfs.msu.edu). In a lot of my Human Development and Family courses, we learn from research and history of past experiences and learn better ways to act. This shows how my major is involved with evolution. For human variability, we learn about human actions, characteristics, physical, and mental states of humans. We can use this information in different situations and see if there are better solutions for the betterment of human interaction. It might allow us to predict how someone might act in a particular case. The readings and videos did make me think  about my field in a different light. There was a lot of insight of how we could use DNA in various ways to figure out more about the human species. In a couple of my classes, we watched parts of the video Epigenetics: The Ghost in your Genes. Watching the entire video made me realize that there are so many possible outcomes from identical twins. Now I understand that we can learn a lot from DNA research. A lot the DNA research that they mention in the video could help with the research of people in Human Development and Family Studies field. In the second video of week two called Source of Variation, I can see how studying recombination or crossing over of chromosomes could help by looking at how different traits happen in children and adults. This way, it could be easier to find out how a person will act in a certain situation. This week’s videos and reading were very interesting in my opinion and I feel that I might do more research on DNA, Charles Darwin’s theories.