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Shale

shale

1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. The green shales of a bean.

2. [G. Shale.

(Science: geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See Bituminous.

Origin: AS. Scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.


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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... to become more rare” (Ref: Futuyma, Douglas Evolution 2005 I suggest you read It's a Wonderful Life by Steven J. Gould. It's about the Burgess Shale and deals with many of the questions you have about the Cambrian explosion. it was due to the cambrain explosion that gould formulated punctuated ...

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by gamila
Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:23 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... explosion makes NS wrong even steven J Gould notes the problem I suggest you read It's a Wonderful Life by Steven J. Gould. It's about the Burgess Shale and deals with many of the questions you have about the Cambrian explosion.

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by alextemplet
Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:16 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... animals - and all within the minuscule span, geologically speaking, of a few million years." (Gould, Stephen J., Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, 1989, pp. 23-24.) "The fossil record had caused Darwin more grief than joy . Nothing distressed him more than ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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transgenic animals

ovum differ with egg. egg has strong shale, but ovum not. ovum always haploid(normally).egg can be diploid or haploid. by the way... please do not use any confusious figure for explain some thing. that makes some one is thinking the wrong....(look ...

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by baikuza
Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:26 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: transgenic animals
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