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Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

Overview of Early Hominids

suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Overview of the Exotic but Very Poisonous Puffer Fish

exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Arguing Against Genetic Engineering

Even if we ignore the more controversial areas of genetic engineering, areas such as genetic engineering targeting the human...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Evolution of the Red Fox

Inasmuch as the red fox is found in a number of geographical locations, it can be readily argued that its mode of speciation is th...

Status and Future Prospects for the Red Cockaded Woodpecker

In five pages this paper examines how the red cockaded woodpecker had been threatened with extinction but how species management h...

Sea Lions, Walruses, Seals, and the Pinnipedia Suborder

In two pages the species of this suborder and how they have evolved are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

American With Disabilities Act, Section 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act And Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: Disabled School Children

held back in their lessons when disabled students require extra attention from the instructor; and 3) Unreasonable expectations fr...

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves

National Nature Reserve (which well refer to as the Reserves to avoid all those diacritical marks) comprises the A?r Massif, a "va...

Overview of Howler Monkeys

spite of ongoing territory degradation. Specific to their region are the foods required to perpetuate the species, including cert...

European Cuckoo and Brood Parasitism

In eleven pages the brood parasitism practice among the European Cuckoo is examined and includes discussion of such concepts as ac...

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

The behaviors that human beings exhibit toward courtship, pair bonding, mating, and raising young are far more complex then those ...

Mozambique and Possibilities of Freshwater Prawn Fishery

In five pages the species Macrobrachium rosenbergii freshwater prawn, its cultural methodology, and the possibilities for Mozambiq...

Ecology of Neandertal

In five pages this paper discusses the distinctive species separate from Cro Magnum known as Neandertal. Seven sources are cited ...

Uniqueness of the Human Brain?

In eight pages physiology and philosophy are considered in the ongoing debate regarding human uniqueness that does seem to center ...

Evidence Offered by Charles Darwin on Natural Selection

In six pages this paper discusses the natural selection theory of Charles Darwin and includes a consideration of the Galapagos Isl...

Comparison and Contrast of Men and Dogs

a pack of males, she automatically receives all attention and is often the unwitting recipient of dog-like howls, eye-bulging star...