/u/rrtaylor's posts
When people joke about prison rape or homosexuality in the navy, there seems to be an assumption that the absence of women somehow turns desperately horny men gay. Is there any evidence that prolonged living in such environments can actually make men gay/capable of homosexual arousal?
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Does String Theory essentially "fix" the really bizarre and counter-intuitive features of Quantum Mechanics (quantum foam, single photons interfering with themselves in the double slit experiment, etc)
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In regards to phylogenetic "Tree-Thinking", why are statements like "mammals evolved from (extinct) reptiles" or "amphibians evolved from fish" no longer considered very accurate?
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Were Tyrannosaurs or similar large Theropods the *direct* ancestors to birds? Or merely dead end offshoots of the same lineage?
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Would a male human raised in isolation from other humans and social sexual cues/information be just as likely to be attracted to female anatomy? How can something abstract like recognition and attraction to the opposite sex arise just from a genomic instructions and developmental processes?
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Why are taxonomists so insistent that no extant taxa "evolved from" any others? Surely salamanders are closer to the first amphibians in morphology than dolphins or humans?
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Why do Phylogenetic taxonomists insist that no "extant lineages" are "ancestral" or more "primitive" than any other extant lineages. Surely today's fish are somehow "closer" to the fish ancestor of land tetrapods than a dolphin or human, right?
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Do any labs, organizations, or government agencies that work with serious biohazards actually use fire or flamethrowers to contain or destroy anything?
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Are the clonally transmissable cancers that have been discovered considered macro-evolution in a single step? If not, why?
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Why do some traits exclude organisms from a Linnaean category while others don't? If Tuataras are "not lizards" because of the primitive structure of the hole in their head -- why aren't "lizards with a primitive head-hole" rather than an entirely different order from squamates?
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