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  2. Cathayornis - Wikipedia

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    Paul Sereno et al., in 2002, considered Cathayornis a junior synonym of Sinornis. They interpreted the anatomies of the two as very similar and sharing key autapomorphies of the pygostyle. [3] The first thorough review of Sinornis and Cathayornis was published by Jingmai O'Connor and Gareth Dyke in 2010. O'Connor and Dyke concluded that despite ...

  3. Blood banana - Wikipedia

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    The blood banana is a variety of the wild banana species Musa acuminata, one of the two ancestors of modern edible bananas. It was once classified as separate species under the now invalid names Musa zebrina and Musa sumatrana. [2] It was also sometimes incorrectly classified as a cultivar.

  4. Category mistake - Wikipedia

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    Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, argues that the "hard problem of consciousness", as expressed by David Chalmers and others, rests on a category mistake, in that explaining "experience" is being incorrectly treated as different from explaining the underlying biological processes which generate experience.

  5. False positives and false negatives - Wikipedia

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    The elements in the green area on the right are those classified as positive matches for the tested condition, while those on the pink area on the left were classified as negative matches. The red crosses within the green area represent false positives (negative samples that were classified as positive).

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Because it is most commonly used in conjunction with a nine-month academic year [114] or a nine-month term of human pregnancy, [115] it is sometimes wrongly assumed that trimester is a synonym for one third of a year or other period. [116] [117] Standard: One calendar year contains four trimesters.

  7. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors

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    [3] [4] By contrast, if the worker controls the means and method of achieving the required results, leaving the employer with the right only to define the desired result, they are correctly classified as an independent contractor. Employees and independent contractors have very different benefits.

  8. Lophostropheus - Wikipedia

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    Lophostropheus is one of the few dinosaurs that may have survived the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. Lophostropheus was a small to medium-sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore , that could grow up to 3 m (9.8 ft) long.

  9. Misnomer - Wikipedia

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    A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied. [1] Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known, or because an earlier form of something has been replaced by a later form to which the name no longer suitably applies. A misnomer may also be a word that is used incorrectly or ...