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  2. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    New York, New Jersey, and Virginia updated and reduced their capital crime lists. This reduction of capital crimes created a need for other forms of punishment, which led to incarceration of longer periods of time. The oldest prison was built in York, Maine in 1720. The very first jail that turned into a state prison was the Walnut Street Jail ...

  3. Human evolution - Wikipedia

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    The first debates about the nature of human evolution arose between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen. Huxley argued for human evolution from apes by illustrating many of the similarities and differences between humans and other apes, and did so particularly in his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

  4. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    The lack of surveillance that was actually possible in prisons with small cells and doors discounts many circular prison designs from being a panopticon as it had been envisaged by Bentham. [18] In 2006, one of the first digital panopticon prisons opened in the Dutch province of Flevoland.

  5. Allan Wilson (biologist) - Wikipedia

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    Allan Wilson was born in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand, and raised on his family's rural dairy farm at Helvetia, Pukekohe, about twenty miles south of Auckland.At his local Sunday School, the vicar's wife was impressed by young Allan's interest in evolution and encouraged Allan's mother to enroll him at the elite King's College secondary school in Auckland.

  6. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of eukaryotes, and possibly sex, is thought to be related to the GOE, as it probably pressured two or three lineages of prokaryotes (including an aerobe one, which later became mitochondria) to depend on each other, leading to endosymbiosis. Early eukaryotes lost their cell walls and outer membranes.

  7. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    "Evolution". Cell Biology Animation. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22 Interactive timeline from Big Bang to present "Plant Evolution". Plant and Animal Evolution. University of Waikato. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28 Sequence of Plant Evolution "The History of Animal Evolution".

  8. Factbox-Prison cell or ankle bracelet? How countries ... - AOL

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    Brazil's current leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, served more than one year in prison after he was sentenced for graft following his first 2003-2010 stint as president.

  9. Evolution of cells - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of cells refers to the evolutionary origin and subsequent evolutionary development of cells. Cells first emerged at least 3.8 billion years ago [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] approximately 750 million years after Earth was formed.