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Dictionary » M » Mule Mulemule 1. (Science: zoology) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny. Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness. 2. (Science: botany) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; called also hybrid. 3. A very stubborn person. 4. A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc, into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; called also jenny and mule-jenny. Mule armadillo, an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame. Origin: F, a she-mule, L. Mula, fem. Of mulus; cf. Gr, . Cf. AS. Ml, fr. L. Mulus. Cf. Mulatto. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: Natural selection is proven wrong... inside of the other (endosymbiosis). In complex animals hybridization can be more difficult. Horses and donkeys normally give birth to a sterile mule but on rare occasions a fertile mule is born. Polyploid Speciation (immediate) Polyploid speciation is the result of all chromosomes doubling, ...
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Endosymbiosis = Hybridization Speciation?... inside of the other (endosymbiosis). In complex animals hybridization can be more difficult. Horses and donkeys normally give birth to a sterile mule but on rare occasions a fertile mule is born. I can reword it to say "in this theory includes endosymbiosis" or something like that but ...
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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox... that an offspring may be produced and may be viable. speaking entirely as a lay-man if you are surprised, thats just dumb HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A MULE????? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule apparently the definition of species is LOOSE at that juncture. what about a pig and a cat? what about a ...
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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News... with, as I believe in a creation model where all things were created fully formed. Sexual reproduction just puts more weight on the evolutionary mule. I would like them to explain how this irreducible complexity happened. "an irreducibly complex system [is] one 'composed of several well-matched, ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... new non-sterile species. In plants this is relatively easy. In animals can be more difficult. Horses and donkeys normally give birth to a sterile mule but on rare occasions a fertile mule is born. Polyploid Speciation Polyploid speciation is the result of chromosome count (information content) ...
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