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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 9 2014, 04:52 AM (777 Views) | |
| Canis Warrior | Feb 9 2014, 04:52 AM Post #1 |
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Canidae expert
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post stories such as the giraffe stories or real life examples |
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| Copperhead | Feb 9 2014, 09:38 AM Post #2 |
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Autotrophic Organism
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I'd definitely be interested in hearing about the giraffe |
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| Canis Warrior | Feb 9 2014, 12:09 PM Post #3 |
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Right now the common belief is that the ancestor of okapis and giraffes moved to the Savannah but it had to much competition but the ones with longer necks could get more food so they reproduced more and more long necked animals were born until now were their neck length is huge also I have been trying to figure out is it possible that their common ancestor was just an okapi? because if you think there wasn't much pressure for the ancestral animal that stayed in the forest to change much at all hope I helped
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| Mesopredator | Feb 13 2018, 05:16 PM Post #4 |
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Disaster taxa
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Just a thought: I think storytelling about evolution is a great idea; though it is hard to pull off. Information has a tendency to change. Just think of the game in which you whisper to a person a message and that person whispers it to the next and so on until the last person speaks up and explains the message. Usually it is wrong because of small errors. I would prefer to tell stories about evolution that are not fully correct, and instead cover the basic rules. I'm currently doing a course in nature education and evolution could be a part of what I am educating. I understand that for some people evolution is unaccording to their belief. I've talked about it here before that I don't agree that science and religion are full dichotomies. I am a follower of the belief that the divine and sacred can co-exist with evolutionary thinking. For me evolution is not a fully random process, because it still follows certain laws. I'm inspired by Stuart Kauffman's ideas, namely those in Reinventing the Sacred. I also think that evolutionary truth is to be found in religion and art. For me the process of evolution is something beautiful. I place my faith in Nature and let it guide me. I think action through inaction is useful; though at times we must act. When I say rules, I'm thinking of power laws, (mosaic) co-evolution, reproduction and death, drift, positive and negative selection, and so on. I'm still in the process of learning. |
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