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Rocks

rock shaft

(Science: machinery) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines.

Synonym: rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

Origin: Cf. Rock, v. I.


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Question on Predators/ NS

... of these original fish developes a slightly longer nose through a mutation, this gives it an advantage because it is able to reach food between rocks etc that the carp can't so this gene becomes more common etc etc. You get the point. This is variation from the original genome.

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by futurezoologist
Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:14 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Question on Predators/ NS
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Views: 157

Re: There is no scientific method

... man-made as 2+23. We labeled it, but the concept was already out there, involved in the workings of the universe. When our ancestors picked up 23 rocks, and then picked up one more, they had 24 whether they knew it or not. In the same way, when we as children discovered that a flashlight did not ...

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by Jasper903
Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:57 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: There is no scientific method
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Views: 397

Re: Diversifying selection

... to make selection for polarized extreme traits and deletes the intermediates. Example of black and white rabbits living among black and white rocks--intermediates are rooted out by selection because of a survival disadvantage. Disclaimer: In my reading of the fruit fly study there was a self ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:03 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Diversifying selection
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Views: 437

Re: Diversifying selection

... likely you will not have totally gray, but rabbits that are individually black and white in the intermediates who will blend among black and white rocks. Speciation and it's theories sound nice, but I am from a farming community and think some of these scientists need to go to the country. I have ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:43 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Diversifying selection
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Views: 437

Re: Bird-Dinosaur News

... to? It addresses the article far better than I could hope to. Yes I did, Mr. Astus. If they were not equipped why would they go ahead and date the rocks and send them back? The bottom line is that there is no way to tell if a rock did not have argon (or lead) in it from the beginning of it's formation. ...

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by AFJ
Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:51 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bird-Dinosaur News
Replies: 44
Views: 1044
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