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Hierarchy

Hierarchy

1. Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other.

2. In psychology and psychiatry, an organization of habits or concepts in which simpler components are combined to form increasingly complex integrations.

Origin: g. Hierarchia, rule or power of the high priest


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can anyone help me answer these biology questions?

... the blood - know the properties of water and how they work - what are buffer solutions (and how do they work) - know how to organize things in a hierarchy of organization (ex: from a cell to a population of animals)

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by tungvinchenzo
Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:55 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: can anyone help me answer these biology questions?
Replies: 2
Views: 742

Re: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... five end chapters including essays on J. F. Blumenbach, the 19th century German anthropologist who developed the first scientific system of racial hierarchy, and Gould's own previously published reviews of Herrnstein and Murrays (1994) The Bell Curve. After carefully reading the book, I charge ...

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by TJJ
Fri May 16, 2008 12:13 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Replies: 18
Views: 12456

Re: Evolution of the distinction of gender

... in birds, reptiles and social mammals as well, such as baboons and dolphins, where gender differences create the groundwork for the complex social hierarchy which favours group survival. (For the record, I'm just throwing down ideas, I'm not a proper biologist)

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by Anaximenes
Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution of the distinction of gender
Replies: 9
Views: 2067

"irresistible lust"

... be releated to the organism's response. As humans mating or copulation biologically is needed for the perpetuation of the species. By Maslow's hierarchy of needs, sex is a physiological need. Remeber one of the organism's basic attributes of life which is responsiveness.

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by mcar
Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:51 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: "irresistible lust"
Replies: 9
Views: 1229

Re: anyone know this M/C question

http://books.google.com/books?id=gRbfHPs1DWEC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=with+each+step+upward+in+the+hierarchy+of+biological+order+novel+properties+emerge+that+were+not+present+at+the+simpler+levels+of+%22organization+these%22+emergent+properties+result+from&source=web&ots=fXYDXUqXID&sig=a91vidFfm37qCUsIj_p9-Yr4G7E ...

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by MichaelXY
Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:10 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: anyone know this M/C question
Replies: 6
Views: 2139
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