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A species likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation Evolutionary psychology bothers me. In some respects, it makes me feel as though my humanity is threatened, and I feel some motivation to attack it based on that emotion. I know there is some bias in me. On the other hand, I want to think that ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... those problems mean your clasifficatory system species cant locate the objects of investigation thus Locating objects of investigation (rare, threatened, and endangered species and subspecies of plants) is what I do for a living. Interesting that you seem to think it's impossible. every one ...

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by AstusAleator
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:04 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2185

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... to protect if we have no clear idea of which organisms belong to which genetic lineages? For example, Fritillaria gentneri is a federally threatened species, but it has a VERY strong resemblance to Fritillaria recurva. Now if we had no way of distinguishing between the two species, we ...

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by AstusAleator
Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:32 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2185

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... bird mate with so what did the first species of bird mate with you said , if species are meaningless nonsense, how do you propose that we protect threatened and endangered species if they're just threatened and endangered nonsense? How do we continue agriculture if we're just raising a bunch of ...

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by gamila
Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:10 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2185

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... system cannot locate or identify the objects of investigation So gamila, if species are meaningless nonsense, how do you propose that we protect threatened and endangered species if they're just threatened and endangered nonsense? How do we continue agriculture if we're just raising a bunch of ...

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by AstusAleator
Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:22 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2185
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