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Intrinsic

Intrinsic

Situated entirely within or pertaining exclusively to a part.

Origin: L. Intrinsecus = situated on the inside


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... You do not play or listen to music because it is going to boost your chances to reproduce. The joy from hearing music or playing music is intrinsic to itself and not tied to reproduction. I’m going to label the hypothesis that many features of human behavior are based on the versatility ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
Replies: 3
Views: 137

Looking for answers/input.

... reproduces and it becomes the norm" - it instead becomes, "<such a thing> randomly mutates with no benefit from the mutation, any intrinsic systems which force out the mutation don't start or work, the organism survives, reproduces and passes on this single mutation, several mutations ...

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by Mirabilis
Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Looking for answers/input.
Replies: 9
Views: 1116

Require advice regarding Myelin/VitB12 :D

... nervous system, but anemia is the most prominent symptom. It is uncommon (although possible) to have a vitamin B12 deficiency unless you lack the intrinsic factor. B12 causes some degree of demyelination if the deficiency has lasted for a relatively long time, but as far as I know this is quite ...

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by biohazard
Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:36 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Require advice regarding Myelin/VitB12 :D
Replies: 2
Views: 363

Re:

... know nothing--where it was going--it didn't know what lungs were and it had no blueprint or allele for lungs. Neither did the genes, they have no intrinsic knowledge, but are only information containers. 3) In other words, the new information that was produced was not guided by intelligence from ...

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by AFJ
Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:10 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
Replies: 293
Views: 30209

Human aging

Also, you know Hydra which it hs been oberseved that they live for very long period without intrinsic aging because the stem cells permeate its body. It sounds like their stem cells do not accumulated mutations...

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by pomkon
Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:10 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Human aging
Replies: 17
Views: 1881
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