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Post by Admiral Lithp on Feb 2, 2010 1:17:30 GMT -5
Discoberry, that is epic.
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Post by worlder on Feb 11, 2010 22:26:17 GMT -5
Evolution happens. What path though is caused many factors.
It is like spinning a roulette wheel. Evolution is the event of the ball stopping and landing on a number, what number though... depends on how the wheel is unfair and to what extent it is unfair. A comment on a Dan Lietha comic. Ways the wheel could be unfair: - Repeats of the same number
- A number occupies a larger sector
- A sector has a socket or deeper groove
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Post by kristine on Feb 16, 2010 1:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by Northumbrian on Apr 3, 2010 20:45:36 GMT -5
Would anyone care to add some stuff on gene expression at the same level of clarity and IQ-pegging (this means so that I can understand it, but not feel that some has had to explain sex to me.)?
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Post by yellowcat on May 3, 2010 4:27:35 GMT -5
A good primer Vene I will bookmark that for future reference.
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Post by yellowcat on May 3, 2010 17:23:18 GMT -5
I modern cladistic taxonomy any species is considered to be still part of its ancestral groups. Humans are hominids, the other extant hominids being the gorilla the chimps and the orang-utan, there were others but they have died out. Now as all hominids came from the same branch of the phylogenetic tree as monkeys we are also monkeys. We are of course all primates and mammals. Going back to a more distant common ancestor we were and we remain tetrapods or four limbed vertebrates, a group that also includes snakes since they evolved from a limbed reptile. Now the first tetrapods evolved from "fleshy-finned fishes" the Sarcopterygii these also are jawed fish or Gnathostomata that evolved from the jaw-less fish when some of the bones that made up the gill arch became the lower jaw. These jawless fishes are the first vertebrates, going back further all vertebrates are chordates, the group thay includes the Tunicates or sea squirts. Another step back takes us to the bilateria or animals having a bilateral symmetry. The earliest definite bilateria dates back 555Million years
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Post by kristine on May 23, 2010 12:04:11 GMT -5
Help ME! HELP me! www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509719,00.html Bill Would Allow Texas School to Grant Master's Degree in Science for Creationism
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Post by Vene on May 23, 2010 12:39:36 GMT -5
That's a year old... not to mention dead.
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Post by JonathanE on Aug 5, 2010 7:40:27 GMT -5
An excellent and entertaining source for human evolution is Carl Sagan's "Dragons in the Garden of Eden", about the evolution of the human brain. The book is circa 1976, but is still a fascinating and informative read.
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Post by godlesspanther on Oct 19, 2010 22:32:35 GMT -5
An excellent and entertaining source for human evolution is Carl Sagan's "Dragons in the Garden of Eden", about the evolution of the human brain. The book is circa 1976, but is still a fascinating and informative read. I re-read it not long ago. Sagan's material really does hold up over the years. I think it is because of his style. Sagan was a great writer as well as a great scientist.
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Post by deusmalum on Oct 20, 2010 10:41:47 GMT -5
An excellent and entertaining source for human evolution is Carl Sagan's "Dragons in the Garden of Eden", about the evolution of the human brain. The book is circa 1976, but is still a fascinating and informative read. I absolutely adore Carl Sagan. I've just gotten a copy of an audiobook for his Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I'm trying to find a copy of The Varieties of Scientific Experience as well.
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Post by worlder on Nov 9, 2010 14:11:35 GMT -5
You know I got a good way of describing a scientific theory.
A scientific theory is less of an interpretation of a story, and more of a trade skill.
Why? Applications.
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Post by Lucifer on Nov 23, 2010 8:55:38 GMT -5
Looks like god isn't the only one to make a self replicating species, huh? What do you think
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Post by shadowpanther on Nov 24, 2010 16:02:16 GMT -5
Dohoho. I have a lecture in my evolution module tomorrow that is essentially billed as laughing at creationists.
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Post by big_electron on Dec 3, 2010 15:10:54 GMT -5
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