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benefit immensely from social learning. To learn a new task by copying (imitating) skilled performers is a clever way to avoid making unnecessary mistakes in order to search for the correct solutions. It reduces the amount of time spend on learning
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lives of animals and insects. It is essential in order to perform successful navigation, avoid predators and catch prey. An animal receives motion information all the time it perceives an object in its field of vision, this however is not the only
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in monospecific groups. However, in the last 20 years more research has denoted that under certain circumstances, polyspecific group behaviour occurs whereby two or more different species form one group. Hamilton's theory of kin selection, suggests
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to Australia have ultimately changed the ecology and biodiversity in many ways. One of the species significantly contributing to this change are the feral rabbits. Rabbits were first introduced to a small area in Victoria in 1859 for sport hunting.
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son of a wealthy British physician, Darwin enjoyed a well-educated background. Darwin attended medical school at the University of Edinburgh in England. He dropped out of medical school after watching surgery on a patient without anesthetics. Darwin
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controversial and heavily researched topics in the scientific and paleontological fields is the evolution of human beings. New excavations and reconstructions constantly bring new evidence to reshape the human ancestral tree. Today, it is widely
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evolutionary development was in the water and food conducting tissues of the sporophyte. As we move on through the plant kingdom the next important development was the seed. The free living gametophyte is a vulnerable phase of the life cycle. Reproductio
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the nervous system. At this time two
distinct forms are known: NF1 and NF2. One baby in every four thousand is born in the
United States with NF1. It is one of the most common genetic disorders, affecting some
one hundred thousand americans. NF2
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<Tab/>DNA: double helix molecule that is blueprint for almost every cell or organism on the planet. Deoxyribonucleic acid's structure was discovered by Watson & Crick in 1953.
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that controls design or structure of a trait/characteristic of the cell or organism. In the most multicellular organisms 2 copies of the segment of DNA, termed Alleles, interact to give the particular form of the trait as seen.
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