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“Amphibiansthe word comes from the Greek meaning double life.”
“Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.”
“His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.”
“According to Lamarck, there was a forcethe power of lifethat pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.”
“According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.”
“The 'incredible frog hotel'really a local bed and breakfast...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.”
“In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.”
“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.”
“Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes... No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctio...”
“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life...”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartthe mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up ...”
“Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other...”
“Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogonstropical birds common in Manor even ticks. But in a cloud forest, trees structure the ecosystem, much as corals structure a reef. Certain typ...”
“The 'incredible frog hotel'—really a local bed and breakfast—...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.”
“Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogons—tropical birds common in Manú—or even ticks. But in a cloud forest, trees structure the ecosystem, much as corals structure a reef. Certain ...”
