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Squeegee Donating Member (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:21 PM
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Life's top 10 greatest inventions
Scientists give us their list of nature's greatest evolutionary adaptations of all time, ranging from multicellular structure to symbiosis. It's a pretty interesting look at what can be accomplished given the right environmental pressures and time.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg18624941.700
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A Simple Game Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:33 PM
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1. Number 1 has to be,
SLICED BREAD!!
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:36 PM
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2. I'm goingt o guess...
Symmetry

opposable digits

Sexual reproduction

and vertebrates.

now I'll check.
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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 04:27 PM
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6. Opposable digits...
...were an evolutionary dead end, until the evolution of the TV remote control...
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:36 PM
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3. Nothing...
like the vibrating, battery/AC/DC operated dildo!!! Awwww, good, good, good vibrations---she's talking about excitation!
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:43 PM
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4. Beer bottle opener
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 03:47 PM
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5. the Thermos! Keeps stuff hot / keeps it cold. . .
so = how do it know?

:shrug:
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 04:50 PM
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7. not humanity's greatest . . . LIFE's greatest . . .
natural occuring stuff . . . the eye, the brain, language, etc. . . as opposed to man-made stuff . . . if that were the case, I probably would have chosen toilet paper . . . :)
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dcfirefighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 10:10 PM
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8. The ability of yeast to convert sugars to
ALCOHOL!
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-05 08:59 AM
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9. My top ten...
10) Virii
9) Immune systems
8) The CO2-Oxygen cycle of plants and mammals
7) Life's effect on geologic processes
6) Social-organisational structures employed by ants and bees
5) The human brain
4) Cannibis
3) Alcohol
2) Breasts
1) Sex
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