Flight of ideas

... all intelligent beings. I also conclude that experimentation with these ideas with technology is inevitable. We will experiment with nanotechnology, ... of selection for insulation, and only later were they co-opted for flight. In this case, the general form of feathers is an adaptation for insulation ...

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the thoughts im expressing in this reply are based on the ideas of Pierre Tielhard de Chardin as well as the teachings of Australian biologist ... not be extinct today. However, it had no predators and no need to take flight and, either through neutral gene theory or some other mechanism of devolvement, ...

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... intelligence. Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and ... wings" that change shape according to the speed and duration of flight have been designed in 2004 by biomimetic scientists from Penn State ...

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... and they do not deal with underlying causes. A critique of these ideas has been presented by Currey (4). Additional aspects of bone remodeling ... of bone and excretion of calcium and phosphorus (4.1.10). Long spaceflights under zero gravity also cause loss of bone (4.1.11,4.1.12); hypergravity ...

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