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Dictionary » R » Recent Recentrecent 1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the nile. (woodward) 2. (Science: geology) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. Origin: L. Recens, -entis: cf. F. Recent.
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Results from our forumRe: Whale related question ?... only semi-aquatic, then fully aquatic, and then evolved to live in the deep oceans. Early whales all have teeth, not baleen. Baleen was a fairly recent adaption.
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An advanced textbook/resources for experimental techniques?... plenty of biology textbooks, but this course I'm taking is focusing on experimental techniques and I'm really lost. Is there an online resource or recent textbook that focuses on the current biology experimental techniques? Obviously, stuff on blots, but the more advanced stuff too on using fluorescence ...
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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News... to poke holes." Mr. Astus. This is a significant finding. If you read this then you understand that there was already argon in the very recent samples. The point is that when a ratio is given by these labs, they only give a ratio--there is no way they can tell you how much potassium ...
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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News... to poke holes." Mr. Astus. This is a significant finding. If you read this then you understand that there was already argon in the very recent samples. The point is that when a ratio is given by these labs, they only give a ratio--there is no way they can tell you how much potassium ...
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Natural selection is proven wrong... fossil record does tell us, is that there were few large, mobile, bottom-dwelling animals before the end of the [Vendian]. Nevertheless, although recent discoveries have greatly extended the record of sponges and bilateral animals, the earliest unequivocal paleontological evidence of metazoan ...
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