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A frog sitting on the handle of a saucepan on a hot stove. The frog in this photo was unharmed. [1] The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will ...
Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia [1]) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens gradually through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.
In ecology, an ideal free distribution (IFD) is a theoretical way in which a population ' s individuals distribute themselves among several patches of resources within their environment, in order to minimize resource competition and maximize fitness.
Source–sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms.. Since quality is likely to vary among patches of habitat, it is important to consider how a low quality patch might affect a population.
The State of the Union should be an easy topic for a writer. It’s a televised event; you watch it; you react. But it’s actually quite challenging to find anything non-obvious to say about it ...
The distribution of 2,873 globally threatened amphibian species. [2] In the past three decades, declines in populations of amphibians (the class of organisms that includes frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians) have occurred worldwide. In 2004, the results were published of the first worldwide assessment of amphibian populations, the ...
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Written by Marcus Feldman and Jessica Riskin, the review claimed that Harden "disguises her radically subjective view of biological essentialism as an objective fact" and compared her writing to the parable of the "boiling frog" in the way that Harden gradually proceeds from less controversial premises to more controversial conclusions. [14]