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voluntary

Accomplished in accordance with the will.

Origin: L. Voluntas = will


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Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all

... predictably. Therefore religious and sociopolitical philosophies tended to become fundamentalistic,fetteristic,rigid,fascist,blind,certainistic,involuntary,ritualistic and a uniquely prejudiced fetish of man.Such force identified order, but like other entities of creation the permanence of attributes ...

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by maunas
Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:58 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all
Replies: 25
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help match biology

... cerebrum; auditory interpretation; impulses are from the organ Corti Of the cerebrum; visual interpretation; impulses are from rods and cones Involuntary control of heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and swallowing Conscious control; thinking, creative thought, emotions, interpretation ...

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by mkshawty
Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:30 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: help match biology
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Views: 1353

what about gills?

... totally anecdotal and possibly psychosomatic, but it made me wonder if possibly there was some super ancient vestige of gills that retained this voluntary and involuntary movement along with a slight neurological instinct for breathing even. Or is this just some musculature that helps me regulate ...

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by notRoman
Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:20 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: what about gills?
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Views: 998

Theories - Origin of Life

... (Turbellaria And today, there is also a form of free-floating planula!)! Hence, the ancestors of amphibians also have the same nymphs in their voluntary metamorphosis! But this is Stegocephalia! So, coelacanth, then ihtiostega, akantostega - this is not adult organisms, but the intermediate ...

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by LeoPol
Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:19 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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Re: Muscle Tones

Skeletal muscle is striated, and part of the somatic (voluntary nervous system.) Smooth muscle is non striated, and part of the autonomic (involuntary nervous system.) The difference would be like bench pressing (skeletal) and digestion (smooth.) There ...

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by pulle998
Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:07 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Muscle Tones
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