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Spinoza's Idea as Information
E2p13 The correspondent of the information contituting the human Mind is the Body, or a certain mode of Extension which actually exists, and nothing else. A brief thought, which I constantly have i… more »
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Spinoza's Idea as Information
kvond wrote 3 weeks ago: E2p13 The correspondent of the information contituting the human Mind is the Body, or a certain m … more »
The amphibian Xipe Totec
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: Spring, as the frenzily copulating Swainson'ses across the street will tell you, is a time for r … more »
Enigmatic Triassic Hellasaur Thursday...who's counting anway? -- The Duck-billed Ichthyopus
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Neil wrote 2 months ago: When George Shaw received the first platypus skin to make it to England in 1789, he took a pair of s … more »
Volvocine Genes and the Transition to Multicellularity
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Nimravid wrote 2 months ago: I COVERED the volvocine algae recently and promised a post on some of the genes involved in the evol … more »
Evolution of a Novel Gene in Pierid Butterflies
Nimravid wrote 2 months ago: IN MANY CASES even large phenotypic changes can occur without much genetic change. However, occasio … more »
Enigmatic Triassic Hellasaur Thursday: Part the, um fourth?, Kyrgyz Kameleon
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Neil wrote 3 months ago: If you’re hoping to make it into the fossil record, being a small, arboreal insectivore is probabl … more »
Woah.
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Neil wrote 3 months ago: Crazy story in Science Daily today about a paper recently published in the Bulletin of the Society o … more »
Smells like Shrew Spirit
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Neil wrote 6 months ago: Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) “sniffing” underwater from Catania 2006 The kind … more »
Er...How about Mink-tailed Muntjac with Marfan's?
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Neil wrote 7 months ago: Okay, I’m going on record in defense of our favorite AP word-smith, science writer Seth Boren … more »
Can You Hear Me Now?
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Neil wrote 9 months ago: Sure, this Miocene whale ibone looks sick, but the reception’s crap. The ice cream truck trol … more »
In The Eyes of the Aye-ayes
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Neil wrote 10 months ago: Or, “Officer. Of course my pupils are dilated. I’m nocturnal…hey, check out all th … more »
Alien vs. Moray Eel
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Neil wrote 10 months ago: I‘m listening right now to fellow Davisites Rita Mehta and Peter Wainwright on local radio, … more »
To the First Whale
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Neil wrote 10 months ago: There is a lot wrong that is wrong about this (n.b. QED!). But I couldn’t resist. Click fo … more »
Auklets Ooze with Affection
Neil wrote 11 months ago: Alcids by Audubon from here. Crested Auklet is lower right. While Secret Sex Lives estivates we … more »
Sexual Inter Course
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Hmm, perhaps they’re looking for something in which to enroll? I thought, at first, that I mig … more »
Blasé Feathered Tyro
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Photo: J & S S INTERNATIONAL, INC., DBA Kokoro Dinosaurs Copyright 2006 Microecos is no … more »
Glight of the Cryptophugoid I
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: A piece of Lanchester’s phugoid theory (above left), a schematic representation of … more »
Silly Shark, Tricks are for (vampire) Squid
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: From Miki Malör’s Vampyroteuthis infernalis (left) shipboard photo by Carl Chun (right) … more »
Oh-oh here she comes: she's a man(tid) eater
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Daring Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) dines on a Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa) hatchling. Tr … more »
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