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  2. Rule of threes (survival) - Wikipedia

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    Training in use of a liferaft – the rule will apply when exposed at sea. In survival, the rule of threes involves the priorities in order to survive. [1] [2] [3] The rule, depending on the place where one lives, may allow people to effectively prepare for emergencies [4] and determine decision-making in case of injury or danger posed by the environment.

  3. Biological immortality - Wikipedia

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    Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. A biologically immortal living being can still die from means other than senescence, such as through injury, poison, disease, predation, lack of available resources, or changes to environment.

  4. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    The former live in the Americas and belong to an order or superorder including the swifts, while the latter live in Africa and Asia and are a family in the order Passeriformes. Also the nectar-feeding Hawaiian honeycreepers resemble the two and differs from other honeycreeper. [102] [103] Flightlessness has evolved in many different birds ...

  5. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    Such accidental colonization could occur by air, such as plant seeds carried by migratory birds, or bats and insects being blown out over the sea by the wind, or by floating from a continent or other island by sea (for example, by some kinds of plant seeds like coconuts that can survive immersion in salt water), and reptiles that can survive ...

  6. Planetary habitability - Wikipedia

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    It took 4.5 billion years before humanity appeared on Earth, and life as we know it will see suitable conditions for 1 [95] to 2.3 [96] billion years more. Red dwarfs, by contrast, could live for trillions of years because their nuclear reactions are far slower than those of larger stars, meaning that life would have longer to evolve and survive.

  7. Aphids and other bad bugs can survive cold in veggie garden ...

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    The problem is that if we use the garden for those reasons, so do the bugs. Many insects can plague a vegetable garden through the growing season, including aphids, cucumber beetles, squash vine ...

  8. Beautiful and fascinating, Orchids can grow almost anywhere ...

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    Dancing lady orchids are light loving orchids that can live in 40-70% humidity. I also love boat orchids ( Cymbidium ). They are cool growing, so they work well in indoor environments, provided ...

  9. History of life - Wikipedia

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    The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...