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  • How has it been possible, for so many thousands of years, that countless philosophers and scholars, who were pronouncing on human nature, did so without seeing that Homo sapiens is above all Homo aquaticus?

    DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN News from Mad Plato 2009

  • How has it been possible, for so many thousands of years, that countless philosophers and scholars, who were pronouncing on human nature, did so without seeing that Homo sapiens is above all Homo aquaticus?

    Archive 2009-07-01 News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.

    Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

  • Mammals include the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), nutria (Scalopus aquaticus), Gulf Coast kangaroo rat (Dipodomys compactus), and Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus).

    Alvarado mangroves 2008

  • PCR is an application in molecular biology using the thermally stable DNA polymerase discovered in the hot spring bacteria Thermus aquaticus.

    Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • If evolution is true, we would expect organisms living in very hot environments to have evolved polymerases which have precisely the properties we need, and indeed, T. aquaticus found in hot-water pools have this.

    The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Quote-Mining, Trivializing, and Generally Getting it Wrong (Chapter 7) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • He heard a pair of water rails (Rallus aquaticus) warbling from the lake beyond a grove, and he said with the voice of a commentator on a recording of wild birds: "They are water rails".

    Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture 1995

  • Mouse deer1 (Tragulus spp. and Hyemoschus aquaticus) are among the smallest ruminants known.

    26 Mouse Deer 1991

  • Un apertu sur l'Tcologie du chevrotain africain, Hyemoschus aquaticus Ogilby, Artiodactyle Tragulide.

    Chapter 11 1991

  • Le comportement du chevrotain africain, Hyemoschus aquaticus Ogilby (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia).

    Chapter 11 1991

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