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Uncovering the Influence of Genetics on Favorite Color Choices in Humans
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=colour+preference+innate&meta=" have innate colour preferences, but I woldn't say human's have though. I do believe that we MIGHT have an innate tendency to like the sparkling and luminuos, like jems the sun and stars, but I could be wrong. Maybe a desert...- LukeS
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- Forum: Biology and Medical
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Graduate Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist
"I" didn't write that. It was copied and pasted from another source - the MSN science and technology dept. I thought that "everywhere" was the centre of the universe, just as everywhere/ anywhere is the central point on the surface of a sphere...- LukeS
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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The 'random' in random mutation
Random means occurring according to a probability distribution, not 'arbitrary' or indeterminable. It also means without purpose within the present context.- LukeS
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- Forum: Biology and Medical
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Graduate Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist
The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4...- LukeS
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Graduate Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist
% of causes. Now the mass of the universe is 3 x 1055 g , and my average weight throughout my lifetime is about 50,000g (50kg). My proportion of the total is therefore 5 divided by 3*10 to the 51, or about 1.7 * 10 raised to minus 51...% of the total. Now I have been around for 30 years...- LukeS
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Medical Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Causes of Sexual Dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction can be caused by antipsychotic medication. Such medicines affect the dopamine pathways in the brain. They are the mesocortical, mesolimbic, the negrostriatic and the tuberoinfundibular. The first 2 are thought to be important in medical therapeutic effects of the medicines as...- LukeS
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- Forum: Biology and Medical
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Graduate Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist
Light cone? Yhankyou! I'll look into it/them. After a brief scan of wikipedia etc I get the concept but not the calculations. Butterfly? Yes, I think you're referring to chaos theory there, the basic premmises of which I have a grasp of. Infinite. Yes. I take that as meaning without...- LukeS
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Graduate Help Visualisation and Stats for a Determinist
Hello, I am a new user here. Before I go any further I would like to say "hi" to all members. Now on with the post (and I hope I have chosen the right forum). I am a bit of a philospoher and am a "determinist" ie. believe that my actions and thoughts etc are basically a product of the forces...- LukeS
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics