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Essays 121 - 150
climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...
Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...
interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...
exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...
the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...
beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...
of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on...
weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...
("Marine Life," 2003). Hermit crabs are able to protect the vulnerable part of their bodies through the utilization of an empty sn...
the world, based on his observations and research. He states, "I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those...
of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...
acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...
ago. This resentment, and the loss of habitat which seems to characterize so many indigenous species of the Americas, translate t...
are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...
suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...
would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...
successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...
not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...
that there are actually two different universes which coexist (Plato and the Perfect Universe, 2002). According to Plato, there i...
has the distinction of being classified as the last mammal to be discovered from that area. While the Indiana bat is found all th...
deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...
considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...
robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...
Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...
softball and has spawned a number of unique names in addition to those noted above. Each fruit from Osage Orange has many fleshy ...
In a paper consisting of seven pages the why and where the human species evolved traces its origins to the African continent. The...
A 5 page essay that provides an overview of the book by Tattersall and Schwartz. The focus is evolution as it has been expererien...
longer if action is not taken to try to preserve the remaining few that there are. As of this writing there are only one thousand...
In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...
animal and plant species that have formed the existing ecosystem in terms of the need to learn more about the past. this can then...