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  • 41Tinbergen's four questions — When asked questions of animal and human behavior such as why these creatures see, even elementary school children can answer that vision helps them find food and avoid danger. Biologists have three additional explanations: A particular series of …

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  • 42The Natural Bears Classification System — (NBCS or the bear code) is a set of symbols using letters, numbers and other characters commonly found on modern, Western computer keyboards, and used for the self identification of those who self identify as bears in the sense of a mature gay or …

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  • 43Hussain Bisad — has the largest hands of anyone alive: his hands are 10.59 inches or 26.9 cm long. He is among the tallest men in the world, at height | m=2.32. He has size 26 feet and is convert|210|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on. He fled Somalia after being shot, and has …

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  • 44Matupi — မတူပီ Nickname(s): Batu Myanmar  Burma …

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  • 45height — /huyt/, n. 1. extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet. 2. distance upward from a given level to a fixed point: the height from the ground to the first floor; the height of an animal at the shoulder. 3. the… …

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  • 46metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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  • 47Mendel, Gregor (Johann) — born July 22, 1822, Heinzendorf, Austria died Jan. 6, 1884, Brünn, Austria Hungary Austrian botanist and plant experimenter. He became an Augustinian monk in 1843 and later studied at the University of Vienna. In 1856, working in his monastery s… …

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  • 48XYY-trisomy — ▪ genetic disorder       relatively common human sex chromosome anomaly in which a male has two Y chromosomes rather than one. It occurs in 1 in 500–1,000 live male births, and individuals with the anomaly are often characterized by tallness and… …

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  • 49Mendel, Mendelism — • Gregor Johann Mendel (the first name was taken on entrance to his order), b. 22 July, 1822, at Heinzendorf near Odrau, in Austrian Silesia; d. 6 January 1884, at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, Brunn Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …

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  • 50gangliness — noun The state or condition of being gangly. Syn: lankiness, tallness …

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