Both john locke and jean-jacques rousseau offer contrasting visions of the state of nature. in an essay, describe the key starting points of each author’s respective understanding of the state of nature. what assumptions go into their descriptions? as a second step, explain how each of them explain the causes that led us away from this original state. which structural transformations caused us to quit the state of nature? finally, whose version of "human nature" (i. e., the starting assumptions) do you find more persuasive, and why?

Apopulation is a group of individuals of a single species existing together in an area. a population’s range, the area it occupies, changes over time. populations, in turn, may form a network, or metapopulation, connected by individuals that move from one group to another. within a population, the distribution of individuals can be random, uniform, or clumped, and the distribution is determined in part by the availability of resources. how might the geographic range of a species change if populations could not exchange individuals with each other? how would your answer depend on what type of metapopulation existed?

Name three things the framers of the constitution did to keep the federal government or any part of it from becoming too powerful.

Whether or not a given study has the possibility of causing harm to participants: