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How The Bird Got Its Beak

10,000 Birds

Most likely, the researchers have indicated, the hatched birds would be viable and not too different from regular chickens, possibly less different than some of the odd breeds generated by more traditional methods. In order to test the mechanism, we used inhibitors of both pathways to replicate in chicken the ancestral amniote expression.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward.

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How to Make a Remote Sale

Sales and Marketing Management

Connection breeds trust. Is the information you need to share incredibly complex or relatively simple? . There is a sweet spot of extremely effective communication methods that shifts depending on the complexity of information being shared. Logistically, test your audio, microphone, and software in advance of the meeting.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. They can use this form of sensory input to navigate, integrating this information with other data to determine and adjust migration routes as adults.

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Gaining executive access: what messaging approach wins?

Sales and Marketing Management

In a simulation-based test scenario, the executives were told they were reading an email from an outside vendor sales rep they didn’t know and had never met with before. This is an approach that we’ve tested and proven, as have others, but it has not been specifically tested with executives. Decision science has the answer.

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Marketing hacks to make you a sales management guru

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN Sales managers are a rare breed. Put on your science hat and ask some questions about your territories: How well did a particular message fly with each audience? It describes how recipients of information respond more positively when they feel like it’s perfectly suited for them. Test, test, test!?

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

10,000 Birds

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. …because cooperative breeding facilitates defense against brood parasites.

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