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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Those are the same thing. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I hate you. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Never miss an opportunity to STFU |
My family was always bare skinned, not fur covered. Never be more than one step away from your sword-Old Greek Wisdom | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Italian joke. Q - Why do Italian men grow a moustache? A - So they can look more like their mother. tac | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
My three year old calls it my "Daddy fur." Because "Dads have fur. Some day, I will have Daddy fur. When I'm bigger and bigger."  Somehow, it stings less than someone else calling me furry, lol.
Sure does! Sorry, I know it was a typo, it was just too funny and applicable in the natural state.  But yes, increased brain mass led to other changes in the body to accommodate. You touched on the high points, and I forget the specifics, but this was the explanation I was given in college anthropology classes. The larger brain wound up being the more valuable adaptation, and was selected for. Thus, big brains, small mouths and teeth, no fur. Tied in with all that is fire and cooking. With cooked foods, we didn't have to chew so hard, and the skull shape started to change to support larger brains with smaller attachment points on the skull for jaw muscles. We also didn't need such large, broad and flat teeth so our teeth got smaller and our dentition more varied and suited to an omnivore diet, but smaller teeth still than other omnivores because of cooking. We started to evolve rapidly once we lost our Sagittal crest, and the fur went somewhere in there. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
We still have a nub of a tail, though. | |||
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God works in mysterious ways:  . “Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . .” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://poundsstudio.com/ | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Or an Arab. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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This thread turned out not to be what I thought.  ------------------------------------------------------ There are two types of people in this world: Those who need closure, | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
Her tail would be in the way. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Well...there have been exceptions... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis# Alice E. Doherty...  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
^^^^ Wasn't that an X-Files episode? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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We still have the fur. Individual hairs are smaller, finer, microscopic. We're really quite robust compared to a lot of other mammals. Stong bones that don't shatter as easy as horses and many other animals. Better endurance. Can tolerate more lactic acid buildup. | |||
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| Do the next right thing  |
They're not. One is "did you survive long enough to reproduce?", the other is "did anyone want to reproduce with you?". | |||
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You can have your fur. I want feathers. Wings. I would love to be able to fly! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
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Funny Man |
An answer of "no" to either is an evolutionary dead end which is in fact natural selection.......so both are in fact the same. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| Do the next right thing |
They are same in that they are both "selection", but it says that right in the name. That's why there's the modifier in front. Natural selection is simply about survival. People often expand that definition to include all selection, and all evolutionary drivers, but that is incorrect. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Apes have opposable thumbs. And sometimes I'm not too sure about the big brains.  | |||
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