Apex

... human growth hormones, it is believed. Later, the rights were sold to Eli Lilly for this insulin product. Yet Genetech was likely the catalyst and apex of biologic growth that exists now to a large degree. And such companies are truly research-driven compared with some other pharmaceutical companies. ...

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... disease: the more dense a population is, the more susceptible it is to various forms of diseases. An ecosystem does not always "need" an apex predator (or any carnivore), lack of food and/or diseases alone limit the maximum number of herbivores. Heck, an ecosystem doesn't even need herbivores ...

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... chapters, Gould charges 19th century scientists with 'juggling' and 'finagling' brain size data in order to place Northern Europeans at the apex of civilization, lower orders trailing behind in a great chain of being. He argues that, in effect, Paul Broca, Francis Galton, and Samuel George ...

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... evolution (in terms of the theory) works from the primitive to the complex. That would make it a pyramid and we place ourselves smilingly at the apex thinking it doesn’t get any better than us. - primitive to complex is not the transitional language i would use. i would say either simple -> ...

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... evolution (in terms of the theory) works from the primitive to the complex. That would make it a pyramid and we place ourselves smilingly at the apex thinking it doesn’t get any better than us. If an organism can evolve then it must be capable of devolving as well, otherwise it simply paints ...

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