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  2. Inosculation - Wikipedia

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    Once the cambium of two trees touches, they sometimes self-graft and grow together as they expand in diameter. Inosculation customarily results when tree limbs are braided or pleached. The term inosculation is also used in the context of plastic surgery, as one of the three mechanisms by which skin grafts take at the host site. Blood vessels ...

  3. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    If a tree exists outside of perception, then there is no way for us to know that the tree exists. So then, what do we mean by 'existence'; what is the difference between perception and reality? Also, people may also say, if the tree exists outside of perception (as common sense would dictate), then it will produce sound waves.

  4. Intonjane - Wikipedia

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    The reason why umtshato must be held on an even numbered day is that the even number is symbolic of two families in a marriage union. [ 2 ] This ritual is marked by the slaughtering of an ox, the right shoulder of the ox, called umshwamo , is placed into the chosen special hut from the girl's homestead for the night.

  5. Initiation - Wikipedia

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    Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense, it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role.

  6. Evolution of tetrapods - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. [1] Tetrapods (under the apomorphy-based definition used on this page) are categorized as animals in the biological superclass Tetrapoda, which includes all living and extinct amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

  7. 'One Tree Hill' Alum Robbie Jones Reveals Why Quentin Was ...

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    One Tree Hill hooked viewers in with its dramatic story lines — but the cast’s real-life friendships are what keeps fans talking about the teen series nearly 20 years after its premiere. “We ...

  8. Tinbergen's four questions - Wikipedia

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    In those two lineages, the eye was originally constructed one way or the other. Once the vertebrate eye was constructed, there were no intermediate forms that were both adaptive and would have enabled it to evolve without a blind spot. It corresponds to Aristotle's formal cause. [5]

  9. Crown shyness - Wikipedia

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    Canopy of D. aromatica at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia displaying crown shyness Trees at Plaza San Martín (Buenos Aires), Argentina. Crown shyness (also canopy disengagement, [1] canopy shyness, [2] or inter-crown spacing [3]) is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.