Word: speciesism
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But mercury is famously slippery stuff, and a series of recent studies and surveys suggests that the potentially deadly metal is nearly everywhere--and more dangerous than most of us appreciated. Researchers testing birds in the Northeast have found creeping mercury levels in the blood of more than 175 once...
All that has been known for a while, but the game changer was the recent study of Northeastern songbirds. A group headed by Evers had been worried for some time that mercury's reach was greater than it seemed, particularly in the Northeast, which is downwind from the power plants...
Republican: 1. Rare political species targeted for extinction by the dominant, “open-minded” liberal populace which rules the Yard roost. Watch them as they graze. Residential Tutors: 1. “Proctors” for upper class students (see Proctor). 2. Graduate students who get...
The controversy arises from differing interpretations of a key piece of evidence: a single, almost complete female skull unearthed in the Flores cave. According to the PNAS researchers, the effects of microcephaly are evident in the asymmetric shape of the tiny skull. They claim, too, that the features of the...
But the authors of the Nature article?Peter Brown and Michael Morwood, both of the University of New England in Australia?aren't backing down. In an e-mail, Brown told TIME that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of features found in Homo floresiensis...