Question:
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Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation. 

The discipline emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis (of the 1930s) of understanding from several previously unrelated fields of biological research, including genetics, ecology, systematics and paleontology. 

Current research has widened to cover the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution including sexual selection, genetic drift and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryonic development is controlled, thus creating a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis. 

Evolution is the central unifying concept in biology. Biology can be divided in various ways. One way is by the level of biological organisation, from molecular to cell, organism to population. An earlier way is by perceived taxonomic group, with fields such as zoology, botany, and microbiology, reflecting what were once seen as the major divisions of life. A third way is by approach, such as field biology, theoretical biology, experimental evolution, and paleontology. These alternative ways of dividing up the subject can be combined with evolutionary biology to create subfields like evolutionary ecology and evolutionary developmental biology.
1. What is a unifying concept?
2. Of what science?
3. Can it be split up into different ways?
4. Name one?
5. Can you provide an example?
6. And another example, please?
7. Is there another type of grouping?
8. And it is?
9. Example, please
10. And another?
11. Any more?
12. What are these known as?
13. Is there a third way to divide the science?
14. What is that?
15. How many examples can you provide?
16. Who helped develop the synthesis?
17. When?
18. Were the fields related?
19. What is the new field called?
20. And the abbreviated form is?

Numbered answers:
1. evolution
2. biology
3. yes
4. level of biological organization
5. from molecular to cell
6. organism to population
7. yes
8. perceived taxonomic group
9. zoology
10. botany
11. microbiology
12. major divisions of life
13. yes
14. by approach
15. Four
16. Julian Huxley
17. 1930s
18. no
19. Evolutionary biology
20. evo-devo


Question:
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CHAPTER VI 

Lady Margaret, who chanced to be the first arrival on the night of the dinner party in David Thain's honour, contemplated her sister admiringly. Letitia was wearing a gown of ivory satin, a form of attire which seemed always to bring with it almost startling reminiscences of her Italian ancestry. 

"So glad to find you alone, Letty," she remarked, as she sank into the most comfortable of the easy chairs. "There's something I've been wanting to ask you for weeks. Bob put it into my head again this afternoon." 

"What is it, dear?" Letitia enquired. 

"Why don't you marry Charlie Grantham?" her sister demanded abruptly. 

"There are so many reasons. First of all, he hasn't really ever asked me." 

"You're simply indolent," Lady Margaret persisted. "He'd ask you in five minutes if you'd let him. Do you suppose Bob would ever have thought of marrying me, if I hadn't put the idea into his head?" 

"You're so much cleverer than I," Letitia sighed. 

"Not in the least," was the prompt disclaimer. "I really doubt whether I have your brains, and I certainly haven't your taste. The only thing that I have, and always had, is common sense, common sense enough to see that girls in our position in life must marry, and the sooner the better." 

"Why only our class of life?" 

"Don't be silly! It's perfectly obvious, isn't it, that the daughters of the middle classes are having the time of their lives. They are all earning money. Amongst them it has become quite the vogue to take situations as secretaries or milliners or that sort of thing, and it simply doesn't matter whether they marry or not. They get all the fun they want out of life." 
1. Who arrived first to the dinner?
2. Who is wanting their sister to get married?
3. Why did Bob marry her?
4. What does Letitia have that Lady Margret doesn't?
5. What social class are the women not in?
6. What is the sisters ancestry?
7. What has Lady Margret had for a long time?
8. Who was she happy to find alone?
9. What is her full first name?
10. What reason does she give for not getting married?
11. Who is having a great time in their lives?
12. What kind of jobs do they take?
13. Who reminded Lady Margret to question her sister?
14. What is Charlie's last name?
15. Why was the party being held?
16. What was Letty wearing?
17. How long had her sister been waiting to question her?

Numbered answers:
1. Lady Margaret
2. Lady Margaret
3. the idea was put into his head
4. her brains
5. lower class, upper class
6. Italian
7. she had been wanting to ask  for weeks
8. Letty
9. Letitia
10. he hasn't really ever asked me
11. the daughters of the middle classes
12. secretaries or milliners
13. Bob
14. Grantham
15. in David Thain's honour
16. a gown
17. weeks


Question:
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(CNN) -- The way some Republicans talk about the Environmental Protection Agency, you would think it was created by a bunch of pot-smoking hippies communing at a nudist camp in northern California -- when in fact, the EPA was created by one of their own, Richard Nixon, in 1970. 

Much as Republicans don't like to bring up the huge tax increases instituted by their hero, Ronald Reagan, they prefer to sidestep their role in the EPA's humble beginnings and blame it on Democrats. They characterize the whole thing as an albatross hanging around the economy's neck. 

To be fair, Nixon did not ride into the White House as a conservationist, and he did veto the Clean Water Act. But he said he did so because of the price tag of the policy, not its purpose. After the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 -- which at the time was the largest in U.S. history -- Nixon agreed with the rest of thinking society that clean water and air were a good thing. And his fingerprints are all over such tree-hugging initiatives as the Clean Air Act. 

Sadly, if he tried any of that funny business today, his own party would probably impeach him. That's how far down the oil well some in the Republican leadership have fallen. 

Rep. Michelle Bachmann said she would lock the EPA's doors and turn off its lights if she were president (thankfully there's no chance of that); Newt Gingrich said he would shut down the EPA and create a replacement to work with businesses to create jobs (making it more of a lapdog than watchdog); Rick Perry asked the president to halt all regulations, adding "his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America." 
1. Who created the EPA?
2. When was that?
3. What political part was he part of?
4. Were they proud he started it?
5. Why did he start it?
6. What happened to cause him to start it?


Numbered answers:
1. Richard Nixon
2. 1970
3. Republicans
4. No
5. unknown
6. unknown