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  • From there, you can view your selection's menu and hours, and even its Twitter mentions, which is important for finding the more mobile ones.

    Have an App Happy Summer 2011

  • So as with games, music's very hard to judge "objectively", because of that weird marriage of subjective elements with technical ones that can be said to "succeed" or "fail" -- and like games, the selection's so broad and so continuous that there is a need for a prevailing critical opinion to help audiences shape their listening habits.

    Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009

  • So as with games, music's very hard to judge "objectively", because of that weird marriage of subjective elements with technical ones that can be said to "succeed" or "fail" -- and like games, the selection's so broad and so continuous that there is a need for a prevailing critical opinion to help audiences shape their listening habits.

    Archive 2009-03-01 SVGL 2009

  • It's a page out of the antievolution playbook: using evolutionary biology's own literature against it, selectively quoting from the likes of Stephen Jay Gould to illustrate natural selection's downfalls.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • No repair mechanism is needed as long as the mutation rate doesn't outstrip natural selection's ability to purge the mutations.

    A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

  • No repair mechanism is needed as long as the mutation rate doesn't outstrip natural selection's ability to purge the mutations.

    A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

  • Nevertheless, I hope I may be forgiven for wondering whether part of group selection's romantic appeal stems from the authoritative hammering the theory has received ever since Wynne-Edwards did us the valuable service of bringing it out into the open (The Extended Phenotype, 1982 p115).

    David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection V: The Patriotic History of Individual Selection Theory 2009

  • His goal was to explain the evolution of altruism and he was happy to acknowledge group selection's essential role as soon as it was revealed to him through the Price equation.

    David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks 2009

  • Surely you haven't already forgotten that both Kimura's paper and Egnor's 'challenge' concern natural selection's ability to add information to the genome.

    Death of a popular anti-ID argument 2007

  • The selection's great, and the prices are reasonable.

    Anna at BootyVintage - A Dress A Day 2008

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