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Administration of President George W. Bush, Endangered Species, and International Trade

of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...

Overview of Merriam's Shrew

considerable difficulty identifying each individual species, inasmuch as they share so many common characteristics. With the exce...

Gracile and Robust Australopithecines and Dental Patterns

robustus, members of the gracile and robust groups, respectively. The others were limited to the region of Ethiopia, the place of...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Overview of Early Hominids

suggests that this early hominid was no larger than a modern chimp. However, in order for trained chimps to successfully impersona...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Endangered Species the Indiana Bat

has the distinction of being classified as the last mammal to be discovered from that area. While the Indiana bat is found all th...

Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Illinois' Endangered River Otter Species

successful that the State of Illinois discontinued the program because their numbers were successfully increasing on their own. T...

Species and its Nature

that there are actually two different universes which coexist (Plato and the Perfect Universe, 2002). According to Plato, there i...

Species Extinction and Growth of the Human Population

Academy of Sciences on Sustainable Consumption (1997) makes a valuable point in linking consumption, population growth, and the im...

Overview of the Nervous System of Humans and Animals

In two pages this comparative analysis of the nervous systems of various species and human beings is presented. There are two sou...

Alaska's Glacial Moraine Succession

exposed rock of the moraines: "the rebirth of the temperate rainforest begins, with alder, willow,...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

Becoming A Veterinarian

Committee is responsible for developing, monitoring, and adjusting the curriculum to meet the veterinary medical educational needs...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

The Extinction Vortex in Regard to Bees

found that a certain number of individuals in a population that was within a decade of going extinct "was somehow less valuable to...

Nature: Charles Darwin and Annie Dillard

he felt but what he saw. His work begins with the following: "When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety o...

Theory Of Evolution And Intelligent Design: Main Points

Ultimately, the trials actual purpose "emerged through its interpretation as a conflict of social and intellectual values" rather ...

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves

National Nature Reserve (which well refer to as the Reserves to avoid all those diacritical marks) comprises the A?r Massif, a "va...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Lemurs

million years ago (Weir 16). One theory on how lemurs came to Madagascar is that some of their number was "washed from the African...