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  2. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    The importance of stone tools, circa 2.5 million years ago, is considered fundamental in the human development in the hunting hypothesis. [citation needed]Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, theorizes that the control of fire by early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. [2]

  3. Living technology - Wikipedia

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    Living technology is the field of technology that derives its functionality and usefulness from the properties that make natural organisms alive (see life).It may be seen as a technological subfield of both artificial life and complex systems and is relevant beyond biotechnology to nanotechnology, information technology, artificial intelligence, environmental technology and socioeconomic ...

  4. Technology - Wikipedia

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    Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2] [3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.

  5. Technology is great -- but people still need human contact

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    A term coined by Harvard lecturer, Edward M. Hallowell, it refers to the psychological encounter that can happen only when two people share the Technology is great -- but people still need human ...

  6. Human uses of living things - Wikipedia

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    Biology studies the whole range of living things. Animals such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish, the chicken and the house mouse, serve a major role in science as experimental models, [32] both in fundamental biological research, such as in genetics, [33] and in the development of new medicines, which must be tested ...

  7. Rotating locomotion in living systems - Wikipedia

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    A wheeled buffalo figurine—probably a children's toy—from Magna Graecia in archaic Greece [1]. Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of the corkscrew-like flagella of many prokaryotes).

  8. Ethics of technology - Wikipedia

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    The second being that cloning animals is not only for pets, but for all animals in general. Maybe people are concerned that people are going to clone animals for food purposes. [70] Another question about animal cloning is it is good for the welfare of the animal or will the radiation and other procedural aspects cause the animals life to end ...

  9. Outline of technology - Wikipedia

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    Transport – the transfer of people or things from one place to another. Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast. Vehicles – mechanical devices for transporting people or things.