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special sense

One of the five senses related respectively to the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.


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Natural selection is proven wrong

Colonial insects are an interesting special case. If we look at mammals, the reason parents so often go to such lengths ... in evolutionary terms. Even though many of them don't reproduce in the classical sense of the word, they still are very successful at ensuring the continuation of ...

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by alextemplet
Sun May 03, 2009 2:32 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16351

Natural selection is proven wrong

... science like this all adding up to what it does. You know it makes sense but with natural selection not needed for the theory to stand on its ... then occur between the sexes, which in turn accounts for the current special-fit machinery. As long as one can reasonably recognize and mate with ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:39 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16351

Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)

... way to control growth but I'm still trying an implementation that makes sense and is useful for the simulation at the same time. I've been trying ... a much less realistic but more entertaining way. I've been adding "special" traits that could be anatomical or behavioral adaptations like ...

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by Smig
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:25 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)
Replies: 11
Views: 3227

Dilation or Constriction

... read this anywhere, so i might be wrong, but it would make more sense for it to be constriction. Sympathetic innervation is more for special situations, when you have bigger things to worry about than filtering blood.

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by MrMistery
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:56 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
Views: 734

Re: Simple Nucleic Acid Question

... don’t consider amino acids to be building nucleic acids in the same sense that they are used to build proteins. Some of the proteins made from ... nucleic acids are the building blocks of genes in the form of DNA. A special copy of the information held in the DNA sequence is “read out” in ...

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by blcr11
Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:25 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Simple Nucleic Acid Question
Replies: 1
Views: 440
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