[pic]The largest creature ever known to have existed on Earth is the present-day blue whale. The largest dinosaur attained a length of about 22 m and weighed about 36 tons. Today’s blue whale is even larger than its ancestors‚ and may reach a total length of 33 m and a weight of 145 tons. This giant animal is placid and shy. On the ocean surface‚ its normal cruising speed is about 12 knots‚ but it is capable of attaining 20 knots in short bursts. The maximum reported depth reached by the species
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Transitions of Reptiles to Mammals A long long time ago‚ in a galaxy not too far away‚ was a little blue planet called Earth‚ and on this world not a single mammal lived. However a lot of time has past since then and we now have lots of furry creatures that are collectively called mammals. How did they get their? Where did they come from? These are the kinds of questions that led me to my subject of choice. I will endeavor to provide examples‚ using specific transitional fossils‚ to show that
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INTRODUCTION TO MAMMALS OF SOUTH ASIA Mammals are thought to have evolved from the class Reptilia particularly within the order Therapsida of the subclass Synapsida or “mammal-like reptiles” (Novak 1999). Adelobasileus cromptoni from the late Triassic of Texas about 225 million years old was said to be the earliest known mammal (Lucas and Hunt‚ 1990). However‚ with respect to several important characters‚ Adelobasileus shows an intermediate condition between cynodonts and mammals and its status
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Crossflatts Primary School Morton Lane Crossflatts Bingley West Yorkshire BD16 2EP Tel: 01274 782070 louarmour@hotmail.com 26 August 2011 Dear Reader‚ Re: Darwin‚ Evolution and the Origins of Life I wrote this plan (see below) as a Topic for our Yr5/6. Time constraints meant I couldn’t cover everything I wanted to cover during ‘Topic’. Other investigations that may have been included are: Artificial Selection Why are cows and sheep not extinct? Why are there so many kinds of
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Introduction to B I O L O G I C A L S C I E N C E A Simplified Approach 05.29.2013 RICHARD M. ADRIANO‚ RN 0261849 ------------------------------------------------- NATURAL SCIENCE 1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE Biological science is the study of living things. In this context we may ask: What are living things? We humans‚ ourselves are living things. How do living things differ from non-living things? To answer these questions‚ we must first define the word life
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Japanese Whaling and International Law 日本の捕鯨と国際法 KITAGAWA‚ Mami 北川茉美 091465 March‚ 2009 Japanese Whaling and International Law 日本の捕鯨と国際関係 付和文抄訳 A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the International Christian University for the Baccalaureate Degree 国際基督教大学教授会提出学士論文 by KITAGAWA‚ Mami 北川茉美 091465 March‚ 2009 Approved by ________________________ Professor SCHOENBAUM‚ Thomas J. Thesis Advisor 論文指導審査教授 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: General feature of the whaling issue・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 1 Chapter One:
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STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND COLLECTED ESSAYS IN ANTHROPOLOGY‚ PSYCHIATRY‚ EVOLUTION‚ AND EPISTEMOLOGY Gregory Bateson Jason Aronson Inc. Northvale‚ New Jersey London Balinese Painting ( Ida Bagus Djati Sura; Batuan‚ 1937 ) [Analysis‚ p. 147] Copyright ® 1972‚ 1987 by Jason Aronson Inc. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from Jason Aronson
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WHY WE SLEEP The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals J.A. Horne Published by Oxford University Press 1988 Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Early Sleep Theories 1.2 Daily Sleep and Wakefulness 1.3 Measuring Sleep References CHAPTER 2 Sleep Deprivation 2.1 Problems with Animal Experiments 2.2 Recent Animal Experiments 2.3 Some Problems with Human Experiments 2.4 1896 - The First Real Sleep Deprivation Experiment on Humans 2.5 The Longest Study - 264 hours
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