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  2. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    Mongooses bear a striking resemblance to many mustelids, but belong to a distinctly different suborder—the Feliformia (all those carnivores sharing more recent origins with the cats) and not the Caniformia (those sharing more recent origins with the dogs).

  3. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States.In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred.

  4. Speciation - Wikipedia

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    Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within lineages.

  5. Helminthotheca echioides - Wikipedia

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    Helminthotheca echioides, known as bristly (or prickly) oxtongue, is a sprawling annual or biennial herb native to Europe and North Africa.It was originally placed within the genus Picris but is often separated within the small genus Helminthotheca alongside a few other (mainly North African) plants which also have the distinctive outer row of bracts around the flowerheads.

  6. Unmoved mover - Wikipedia

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    Raphael's depiction of the unmoved mover from the Stanza della Segnatura. The unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized: ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit.

  7. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  8. Joan Didion, 'Goodbye to All That' and the struggle to see ...

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    What we learned by rereading Joan Didion's ruthlessly honest "Goodbye to All That," the quintessential essay about leaving New York.

  9. Chrysops viduatus - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms; Chrysops pictus Meigen, 1820 [2] Chrysops quadratus Meigen, 1820 [2] ... The middle tibiae of C. viduatus are distinctly yellow-brown. The second abdominal ...