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Hair - Animals

A filamentous structure found in mammalian skin that has commonly plays the role of protection (e.g. Head hair) or heat insulation.


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... some fad that will fade out after all the rich people have their blonde hair and blue eyes. On an evolutionary timescale, it will cause an explosion ... This allowed the development of large and long-lived plants and animals, which would have taken trillions of years to evolve if they relied ...

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by Rap
Sat May 26, 2012 3:59 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Perception and Evolution
Replies: 14
Views: 3826

Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom

... lakes, streams, rivers and puddles. Some can even live in the bodies of animals or in most soil. Paramecium use cilia for movement which are little hair like things, all around the outside of their cell. They reproduce by binary fission, and ...

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by Ayeshaa
Thu May 10, 2012 3:14 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom
Replies: 0
Views: 2936

Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom

... lakes, streams, rivers and puddles. Some can even live in the bodies of animals or in most soil. Paramecium use cilia for movement which are little hair like things, all around the outside of their cell. They reproduce by binary fission, and ...

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by Ayeshaa
Tue May 08, 2012 2:31 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom
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Views: 2522

Deer/maggot biology

... entrance and exit wound). Each hole was covered in maggots. Lots of hair was gone and falling out in clumps around the wounds. The bare spots ... were laid for the maggots. Also, are there other examples of living animals having maggots eating them up?

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by alduflux
Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:46 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Deer/maggot biology
Replies: 3
Views: 967

Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... teeth are used for chewing and eating food. On the other hand, consider hair. Hair in humans was originally required for warmth and protection from ... vestiges. We can pawn off unconscious automaton behavior on animals, but humans are not the same. Even if we are influenced by certain ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
Replies: 5
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