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Poor-willie

poor-willie

(Science: zoology) The bar-tailed godwit.

Origin: So called in imitation of its note.


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... the available evidence. However, and that is the sad part of it, a general lack of understanding and of science literacy combined with generally poor science reporting has the consequence (plus the increasing complexity of the matter at hand) that many people takes bits of science without understanding ...

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by canalon
Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:05 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Biology is not a science
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Why are people so in love with tetrapods?

... ones gets permanently recorded in our infant brain. Unless we are biology students, we too keep up growing with untoward feelings towards those poor creatures. It's a fact that regardless of age-sex-country, all of us are preoccupied with big mammals in a zoo. Equally are we interested in some ...

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by surajitkoley
Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:09 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Why are people so in love with tetrapods?
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Alternative Theories to Evolution

... me which type yet] and astrobiologist[yeah, wish me luck]). Are we to infer from this that there is no alternative theory to evolution? Hm . . . Poor evolution must be getting a bit lonely.

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by futurezoologist
Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:23 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Alternative Theories to Evolution
Replies: 13
Views: 399

Natural selection is proven wrong

... then I'm done trying. I feel like I should try to explain more, but your response to the link makes it clear you're more interested in spamming poor logic than actually thinking. happy wbla?

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by AstusAleator
Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16542

Biologists cannot tell us what a species or phylum is

... the term "species" is still controversial, particularly in prokaryotes,[2] and this is called the species problem.[3" note this YOU POOR STUDENT http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/v6i6f.htm The species problem isn’t well known by the general public because it isn’t mentioned ...

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by gamila
Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:25 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Biologists cannot tell us what a species or phylum is
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