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The 'Organisms' proposed by the proton pump theory fall well within this category.
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Organisms are chemical replicators, so chemical replicators exist in fact.
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Organisms producing more than replacement levels competing for finite resources is what drives evolution.
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Genetically Modified Organisms, or, as the FDA says, foods that have undergone genetic modification, meaning they've been engineered and altered at the genetic level "using any technique, new or traditional."
Maria Rodale: Just Label It! So We Know When It's GMO Maria Rodale 2012
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Organisms, by their biology, determine what aspects of the external world are relevant to them and constantly change their environment by their life activities.
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About 10 days ago, Christopher Taylor over at Catalogue of Organisms had a post about the terrestrial gastropod superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Where are all the malacologists? AYDIN 2009
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Organisms and cultures constantly modulate both telic orientation and process relations for optimality in the evolutionary sense — optimality is achieved, if at all, in the aggregate and never in the instance, but cannot be achieved at all programmatically, or algorithmically, whether the algorithm or program be defined by ends or means.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic? 2010
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Organisms are chemical replicators, so chemical replicators exist in fact.
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Organisms (and cultures, and nations) are non-linear entities in a nonlinear social and physical environment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic? 2010
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Organisms producing more than replacement levels competing for finite resources is what drives evolution.
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