11-30-2006, 05:58 PM | #241 |
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I wonder what makes Archeologists think that the nature of human intelligence has changed significantly in the last 100,000 years?
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11-30-2006, 08:18 PM | #242 |
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I'm wondering: why burn the red spearheads there? Questions like that, the really interesting ones, will probably never be answered.
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12-01-2006, 06:02 PM | #244 |
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Well we probably get more caloric intake, but is it actually healthier?
Even with a higher caloric intake, I don't see it affecting the brain structure to a degree that changes the ability to conceptualize abstact ideas. If anything changed it was the nature of the ideas themselves, and the amount of actual transmission from one generation to the next.
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12-01-2006, 09:52 PM | #245 |
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Or, more than change the ability, cause it to spring forth ex nihil.
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*hides her chips*
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12-04-2006, 03:10 PM | #248 |
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As they say in the vernacular, Zing!
(Has currently got a bag of peanut-butter cups, one of Ghirardelli chocolate, and a box of candy canes in his drawer. Also wants to go to Trader Joe's, and buy some truffles, the main ingredient of which is, horrendous to think it, hydrogenated vegetable oil. But they taste so goooooood....)
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01-12-2007, 06:27 PM | #249 |
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These guys do what we all wanted to do in chemistry class
Video: Never put alkali metals into water!
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Spooky choice, jonathan. This particular one was notoriously faked, as are many of their "experiments":
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Oh well, it was a fun video nevertheless
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04-23-2007, 04:47 AM | #252 |
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I thought this was a very interesting article: Heat prevails over genes on gender in lizards
It ties neatly into the case of the 'immaculate conception' of two komodo lizards in zoos a few months ago, if anyone read about that one.
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Interesting article indeed. I had a lecture not long ago, the topic was gender issues but the lecturer still touched on the different sex chromosomes of various species and how temperature played a role too. Prior to that, I had no idea there were more sex chromosomes than the usual X and Y.
Global warming can certainly make a mess in this field of biology.
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Tests on the eggs showed that the mother was indeed the sole parent. As the female komodos have ZW chromosomes, and males have ZZ, the female is apparently capable of producing (all-male) offspring through parthenogenesis. Hang on, I'll hunt down the articles... The first one: 'Virgin births' for giant lizards When the clutch had hatched: Virgin lizard becomes new parent
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"Immaculate conception" (in English) refers to the Catholic doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was NOT born with a sin nature like everyone else in the world (except Jesus). It does NOT refer to how she conceived a child without the human act of intercourse. It's very natural to think that "immaculate conception" refers to Mary getting pregnant without intercourse, since the word "conception" is in there, but that's just not what the phrase means (at least in English - apparantly it does in Dutch, though - that's interesting!) That's why Gwai referred to the sin nature of lizards
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Then English has no phrase to indicate Mary getting pregnant without intercourse?
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