Evolution being a unifying concept amongst many fields is a concept I had not previously considered until this very assignment. When considering evolution as its base level, I always consider the classic Darwinian discoveries along with the overused sequence of primate becoming man. However, this principle can easily be taken into other fields as well. In archaeology, evolution is found throughout all evidence of human remains. In anthropology, evolution can be used as a guiding principle in human behavior and history. Genetics, chemistry, biology, even fields outside the realm of typical sciences benefit from understanding evolution. For me, as an anthropology major, evolution is clearly an immensely helpful catalyst in understanding habits, phenotypes, and culture throughout history. The connection that is able to be made between how humans evolved in different locations across the Earth and how that, in turn, affected the societies they built in the future. How, when, and why humans became what they are today and act how they do is deeply rooted in both evolution and my current field of study. Utilizing the findings one can gather from both makes it much easier to formulate theories, collect data, and procure a workable basis for the nature of humans throughout time. I, however, was not an anthropology major until just earlier this year, thus increasing my scope of how evolution helps to further fields outside of its own. My previous major was astrophysics, which, perhaps surprisingly, also benefits from using evolution. Now, evolution in terms of life on Earth is admittedly different from evolution used in astrophysics, yet they both focus on the small changes that influence the larger outcome of life and death, one just happens to be on a cosmic scale. Cosmological evolution is built on much of Einstein’s principles, including the fact that everything is simply a network of relations, and thus you cannot influence one thing without influencing another by proxy. Everything found in space is surely connected, as nearly any given object in our universe will become or once was every other object. Much in this same way, humans, in their own evolutionary quest, are now a collection of what they once were. Funnily enough, humans are composed of materials from stars, so these two fields are truly more connected than they are often given credit for. Now, in my current field of anthropology, my relationship towards evolution is far more apparent on a daily basis, yet still it is not often a main focus unless studying a specific branch of anthropology. Human variability, however, is something that is studied continuously, no matter which scope of anthropology one chooses to look at. Human variation spans from small, seemingly unimportant characteristics to the larger traits one notices on the daily. Quite a lot of variability comes in the form of culture and society, of which there are countless. Even the obvious, more stereotypical forms of each civilization come with their own subcultures and slight differences that each individual possesses. Evolution and variability seem at first glance to be concepts which do not span many fields, however when one considers the immense amount of variation involved in each aspect of life, it is more present than not.