The Pliocene is the fifth epoch of the Cenozoic. The epoch started around five million years ago and lasted almost three and a half million years. It is during the Pliocene that the first bipedal ancestors of humans are known to have evolved. Dramatic cooling and a drop in sea level impacted both marine and terrestrial life at the start of the epoch. The name Pliocene means "more recent” and this were the most recent epoch of Tertiary period‚ lasting from about 5 to 2 million years ago. Compared
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tissue which made the skins harder‚ it also passed on its sharper teeth because it’s prey started to get harder to bite into so it had to adapt by making its teeth sharper‚ and one more is fins for swimming faster because the prey started to get faster over time to avoid getting eaten so the Megalodon had to adapt by swimming faster and stronger to catch up to the prey. This how you see all the modern day sharks strong skin‚ sharp teeth‚ and quick swimmers. The Megalodon didn’t have many predators just
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They say when you are making shots in basketball‚ you are a "hot" shooter. So it’s no surprise that with about three and a half minutes remaining in the game between the Fort Wayne Mastodons and North Dakota State Bison‚ the fire alarm finally sounded. The Mastodons and Bison were both shooting over 50% on their three-point attempts‚ with the ’Dons having a 80-77 lead after trailing by double-figures late in the first half and being down by seven at halftime. Unfortunately‚ after a nine-minute
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come across the Sybil at Cumae who was hung in a cage. Children threw stones at her and asked‚ “What do you want?” In answer‚ she said‚ ‘I want to die.” This very Sybil asked for as many years to live as there were grains of sands in her grasp from Apollo as a boon. In other words she asked for immortality but she forgot to ask for immortal youth like Tithonus who also suffered from agility. At last Tithonus said that a man should not try to vary from the race of man. This Sybil at Cumae out of
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Name : _____Ashley Vernet_______ Chapter 17: Life on Earth Activity designed by Kathleen Rudolph Taxa to explore – Elephants!! 1. Review terms (write definitions for these terms) Extant Species‚ families‚ or groups still in existence Extinct Species‚ families‚ or groups no longer in existence‚ end or died out Genotype Genetic make-up of an organism Phenotype Physical attributes of an organism‚ observable or measurable traits Synapomorphy Shared characteristic that are inherited
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studies have changed the way that the general public has viewed them. Theropod dinosaurs have been selected to be analyzed because they have the strongest evidence pointing to warm blooded tendencies across the class. Carbon and oxygen isotopes in teeth enamel and physical fossilized data can be used to argue for the warm blooded tendencies in the theropods. Introduction The debate of whether dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded is neither a new nor resolved debate. Since first hypothesized in 1969
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now. In a sinkhole about 30 miles west of Tallahassee‚ Florida‚ under 9 feet of murky water‚ divers found many artifacts‚ such as a stone knife and the remains of a hunted mastodon‚ that were carbon dated to about 14‚400 years ago. Archaeologists figure it is likely that these pre-Clovis people killed and ate much of the mastodon‚ and left behind the man made knife and it’s carcass. The dating
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Jefferson loved science and technology‚ he invented a Jefferson Disk. The Jefferson Disk is a wheel that has Latin letters on it‚ you chose your letters you needed to write with‚ and then you would be able to write in Latin. Jefferson had the bones of a Mastodon‚ an animal from 40 million years ago. He
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Sybil Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Victoria Kuehn-Larson Abnormal Psychology Term Paper: Sybil June 5‚ 2011 Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is one of the most talked about and publicized disorders known and is the center of much debate and criticism. The past two decades have shown an increase in the number of cases of MPD but there are many professionals that are skeptical about whether it even exists. MPD and Dissociative Identity
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Textbook case: Managerial Accounting for Managers‚ 2nd edition Noreen‚ Brewer and Garrison (McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ 2008). Case 4-33 Cost Structure; Target profit and Break-Even Analysis Contribution Income Statement for all three scenarios: 15% commission 20% commission Own sales force Sales $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 Variable manuf. cost $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 Commissions $2‚400‚000 $3‚200‚000 $1‚200‚000 -Tot. variable cost ($9‚600‚000)
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