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  2. Accelerating change - Wikipedia

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    According to Kurzweil, since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms have been evolving exponentially faster, with shorter and shorter intervals between the emergence of radically new life forms, such as human beings, who have the capacity to engineer (i.e. intentionally design with efficiency) a new trait which replaces relatively ...

  3. Time perception - Wikipedia

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    Under this model, a 55-year-old would subjectively experience time passing ⁠2 + 1 / 4 ⁠ times more quickly than an 11-year-old, rather than five times under the previous. This means the following periods in life would appear to be quantitatively equal: ages 0–1, 1–4, 4–9, 9–16, 16–25, 25–36, 36–49, 49–64, 64–81, 81–100 ...

  4. Biological life cycle - Wikipedia

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    In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the ...

  5. Recent human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Cave paintings (such as this one from France) represent a benchmark in the evolutionary history of human cognition. Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin was the first to propose the out-of-Africa hypothesis for the peopling of the world, [39] but the story of prehistoric human migration is now understood to be much more complex thanks to twenty-first-century advances in genomic sequencing.

  6. Ecological succession - Wikipedia

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    B) Emergent plant life begins to move inward and submerge, filling up the lake. Sediment accumulates as the plants grow and die. Terrestrial plant life increases. C) Sediment fills the lake basin, leaving a swampy center at the surface. Terrestrial plants take over and begin to slowly dry out the damp surface. A hydrosere community

  7. Why Gas Prices Rise Quickly but Fall Slowly - AOL

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    In this way, as retailers wait to cover the costs of the higher-priced gas still in their tanks, gas prices decline more slowly than they rise. Maximizing Profits Other factors also play a role in ...

  8. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    Most of us know to be cautious of sharks and lightning, but, in reality, there are some rather big dangers out there that often go unacknowledged. Here are 10 weird things that can kill you almost ...

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