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shorthand

A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography.


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are the horse and chicken related?

... "In the study of early life on Earth, one name towers above the rest: LUCA. LUCA is not the name of a famous scientist in the field; it is shorthand for Last Universal Common Ancestor, a single cell that lived perhaps 3 or 4 billion years ago, and from which all life has since evolved. ...

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Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: are the horse and chicken related?
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