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Excitement

Excitement

1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

2. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle. (Talfowrd)

3. (Science: physiology) a state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.

Origin: cf. OF. Excitement, escitement.


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Re: Future Human Evolution

... genetic undesirables, will someone make them slaves, neuter them, or just exterminate them? People like to ignore moral implications in their excitement of the possibilities. Or be naive and deny that anyone would do that. A wise man sees the evil coming and avoids it.--Proverbs

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by AFJ
Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:53 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
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Views: 5673

Natural selection is proven wrong

... C.elegans nematode the origin of sex seems to be based on the birth of an occasional male-only in an easily fertilized population who adds extra excitement to a normally very boring sex-life. Epigenetics may play a role by the inheritable switches to produce males being passed on, then later ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:39 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Views: 16552

A Direction in College

pretty much any decent university has a regenerative biology department nowadays, with all the excitement over stem cells. *Shameless plug* The Harvard Stem Cell institute is still unrivaled in the field.

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by MrMistery
Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:20 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: A Direction in College
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... deal with poverty. I think ultimately, people are to blame. If you want to blame someone, blame the budget cuts to science programs after all the excitement from Sputnik died down. I heard from one of my profs that the main reason people don't understand evolution/science/creation is because for ...

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by gfrabizi
Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:03 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
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Stomach bloating and weight gain

... im going through. I feel the bloating and fatigue mainly in the early afternoon.::ok ok.. let me get my thoughts straight.. they keep racing with excitement that someone else knows what im going through::: I thought the weight gain was from some kind of depression my body was going through since ...

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by sjlazo
Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:37 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
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