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Adaptation Quotes
This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies. We have known for some time that when species invade a new environment or ecological niche, a common result is the formation of a great diversity of new species. However, we haven't really understood how or whether the process of adaptation generally drives this pattern of species diversification.
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Animal Quotes
The hot spots studied in this paper are essentially refugee camps for many of our planet's most unique plant and animal species. If those areas are no longer habitable due to global warming then we will quite literally be destroying the last sanctuaries many of these species have left.
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Animal Quotes
The idea behind QVM is all about information and empowerment, ... Vegetation management is a business that is becoming more critical to the public every day - from keeping utility lines free of trees, to slowing wildfires in the west, to safeguarding our native plant and animal species from invasive threats.
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Among Quotes
The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats in the world. Given the growth in the South and the rapidly changing landscape, it is our outlook that many of these areas would in the next 20 years be converted from forests into fully developed landscapes." ()
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Appetite Quotes
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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Art Quotes
He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.