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Point of fixation

point of fixation

The point on the retina at which the rays coming from an object regarded directly are focused.

Synonym: point of regard.


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Re: Biology is not a science

... text that you have written and yet, you have failed to make any clear point, nor have you offered any insights worthy of thought. I suspect your post are some strange fixation that you have in creating conflict, and for what reason I do not know. Maybe ...

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by MichaelXY
Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:00 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Biology is not a science
Replies: 44
Views: 1420

Polygenic traits

... ( presumably mutated) could have been preserved and extended to the point of fixation in a population?

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by Morphoeclectic
Fri May 02, 2008 3:33 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Polygenic traits
Replies: 1
Views: 1624

Re:

... of years to remake petroleum(I guess we're disgregarding plant carbon fixation)whereas the hydrogen production cycle is much faster(synthetic methods) ... emissions of carbon, that is absolutely correct. BUT, that is not my point - hydrogen cars still emit green house gases (water vapor), and if ...

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by Darwin420
Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:23 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Hydrogen cars - will it really reduce greenhouse emittions?
Replies: 4
Views: 1858

Why I think Neo-darwinism is dead

... to dig below the surface and focus on genetics. It’s a bizarre fixation on the flask and test tube. But there’s a reason for this odd diversion…and ... So what does this mean? It means that since DNA is neither the starting point, nor the ending point. And it could not have played the role in evolution ...

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by supersport
Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:56 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why I think Neo-darwinism is dead
Replies: 26
Views: 6733


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