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A few degrees Celsius of fever--loss of homeostatis for temperature--and humans die.
Climate Change I: sources of evidence for change e_moon60 2009
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"To our knowledge, this is the first direct demonstration in any species that a paternal environmental exposure" - in this case, a high-fat diet - "can induce intergenerational transmission of impaired glucose-insulin homeostatis in their female offspring."
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One certainly would not refer to the atomic bomb as a bomb created by very small atoms (there is a specific process by which the atoms are forced to react). -- before seeing all of this discussion, I deleted what I thought was a redundant and non-grammatical statement about homeostatis (if others feel strongly about including it, I can accept it).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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One certainly would not refer to the atomic bomb as a bomb created by very small atoms (there is a specific process by which the atoms are forced to react). -- before seeing all of this discussion, I deleted what I thought was a redundant and non-grammatical statement about homeostatis (if others feel strongly about including it, I can accept it).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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One certainly would not refer to the atomic bomb as a bomb created by very small atoms (there is a specific process by which the atoms are forced to react). -- before seeing all of this discussion, I deleted what I thought was a redundant and non-grammatical statement about homeostatis (if others feel strongly about including it, I can accept it).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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One doesn't become a "homeostatis machine" overnight, by accident.
IndyBlogs 2008
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One doesn't become a "homeostatis machine" overnight, by accident.
IndyBlogs 2008
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