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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. One is that the circumstances for a trait to emerge do not automatically cause it to happen, and by chance Penguins never underwent this particular Darwinian process until much later in their history. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M.,

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

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For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. That strategy determined the fact that all mammals would have the risk of somatic mutations that accumulate over time affecting their eggs. Rather, cladistics is a way of looking at the process of evolution of species.

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