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Do prey animals on the savanna (zebra, gazelle, wildebeest) actually face the kind of constant danger portrayed on wildlife shows?	768
Does a person who is born blind experience the brain/head as the center/origin of consciousness the way a normal person does?	19
Are traits that have evolved primarily to attract mates - coloration, dancing, etc - always traits that originally provided a survival benefit?	17
In general, if they survive to sexual maturity, will: (a. some, b. most, or c. very few) males of any given species eventually successfully sire offspring? Does it vary dramatically from species to species, or is it roughly consistent?	14
Does the severity of the pain generally correspond to the severity of the injury?	8
Broadly speaking, is biological diversity on Earth continually increasing? That is - are there a greater number of species now than there were 100mya, were there a great number of species 100mya than 500mya, etc?	4
Would traveling vertically (perpendicular to the orbit of the planets) have changed anything about Voyager's flight?	2
When two species split from their last common ancestor and evolve to fill different niches in the same region/habitat, is the species less similar in appearance & diet to the LCA likely to have descended from less dominant/"successful" members of that species?	1
Do African/Eurasian animals (which evolved alongside hominins) behave differently around/towards humans than North/South American animals (which didn't)?	1
In the Salish Sea, two populations/subspecies of morphologically identical orca coexist but rarely interact and never interbreed. Are there any examples of other species essentially segregating by behavior like this?	1

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