Word: genus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glenn Flores '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "Comparative Osteology, Relationships, and Evolution in Jamaican Frogs of the Genus Eleutherodactylus"--Professor Ernest E. Williams...
...dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." We now have animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered manner. Inter-texte, Friction rub, Ring or mousse makes at least as much sense as Florentine, Frozen, Identification, Lima beans and. But the second should go together...
...assortment of Hoagland's Times editorials. Uniformly great, they are lyrical reminders of the virtues of juneberries, and if not specifically of juneberries, then of the virtue of noticing the smaller prosaic things and events which often go unnoticed. Whether reading about "poisonous and nonpoisonous varieties of the genus Amanita" mushrooms, or the skin in sheddings of garter snakes, one is thrilled. The sobering comes shortly after, when one remembers the criminally foolish president and his similarly foolish and greedy followers who strive to make the water, as and ground unlivable for mushrooms, garter snakes and people
...COURSE, some people are naturally conservative they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Many Evangelicals and Fundamentalists believe that the fossils indicate an ancient earth as well as limited or partial evolution at the level of the genus or order. They also see nothing unscientific about giving God ultimate credit for creation, and usually still believe in man as a distinct formation...