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    evolutionary approach current human behaviour can be understood in terms of how it may have been adaptive in our ancestral past. Evolutionary theorists are concerned with behaviour which is adaptive and having survival value‚ these researchers look for ultimate explanations. Current behaviours may be maladaptive and dysfunctional but can be understood as having been adaptive and functional in some way. To undertake this type of analysis they draw on the theory of natural selection and suggest that all species

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    of and/or damage to the subject matter insured arising from any cause‚ including inherent vice‚ which the insured believes to have arisen during the currency of the insurance and/or which manifests itself thereafter. Delay is included as a proximate cause of loss‚ deterioration and/or damage in a variety of circumstances. Among these circumstance are: • the actions of strikers and/or rioters • any act of terrorism and/or political sabotage • late arrival and/or departure of carrying conveyances

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    Family ties are those things that make a family very proximate. A lack of family ties can make them not very proximate at all. A traditional family‚ for instance‚ may have family reunions every year to keep them close. Others may live very far apart and are not able to optically discern each other often. Having dinner at the grandparents’ house after church on Sunday‚ might be another tradition that families participate in to stay proximate to one another. Dolefully‚ some families never visually

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    This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had

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    Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological argument is a posteriori argument that Aquinas uses to prove the existence of God. Aquinas argues that‚ “Nothing can move itself‚ so whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another‚ and that by another again. But this causal loop cannot go on to infinity‚ so if every object in motion had a mover‚ there must be a first mover which is the unmoved mover‚ called God.” (Aquinas‚ Question 2‚ Article 3). I do agree with Aquinas’s cosmological argument in proving the

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    Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice‚ a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families‚ members of this family can roll into a ball‚ ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common name of pill bugs‚[1] doodle bugs‚ or roly polies. The best-known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare‚ the common pill bug. The Classification

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    sought to (a) evaluate the sensory qualities of sweet potato cookies in terms of appearance‚ odor texture and taste. (b) determine the most suitable treatment based on general acceptability. (c) determine if there is a significant difference on the proximate composition between control and the most acceptable treatment in terms of moisture‚ ash‚ crude fat‚ and protein. (d) determine production cost analysis of the most acceptable treatment. There were four treatments used in this study: Treatment 1

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    Strayer University SEC 300 Introduction to Private Security Prof Ebrahim Biparva October 26‚ 2011 Elements of Negligent Liability Negligence is the failure to exercise the care toward others which a reasonable or prudent person would do under certain circumstances or taking action which a reasonable person would not (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/negligence). Negligence also assesses the human choice to engage in harmful conduct as proper or improper. This is because choices

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    Definitions Assignment - TORT Intentional Torts – Intentional Torts are battery‚ assault‚ false imprisonment‚ trespass to land‚ trespass to chattel‚ and conversion. See examples of each below. Battery – The intentional unlawful‚ harmful‚ or offensive touching of the person of another. Example: The verbal argument has escalated to the point that Susan raised her hand and slapped Joe on the cheek. Susan committed battery against Joe. Assault – The intentional threatening of another with

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    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE FAITH OF CHRISTIANITY Faith is the bed-rock of Christianity. Of all existing religions‚ Christianity is the only faith-centered religion. Other religions are wrongly labeled as “faiths”. The paradoxical phrase “paths of faith” has falsely elevated the other religions to a “faith” status. For‚ there is no other religion than Christianity which offers “faith” as a way of salvation to its adherents. Faith “marga” (way) is unique to Christianity. Faith is the essence of Christian

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