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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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He collected 136 individuals found laying around after the storm, and carefully measured them. This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out.

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Seabird City Spectacular

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Bempton’s towering chalk cliffs hold the biggest mainland seabird colony in England The last inhabitants of St Kilda left nearly a century ago, so it seems likely that spared the annual cull, numbers of Gannets grew and were able to spread to new colonies.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

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If you know a bit more than that about Darwin, you know that he totally messed up his collection of birds from the Galapagos Islands, and didn’t really think up Evolution until much later in time. If you know more than that about Darwin, then you know that neither of these characterizations of the great man’s work is accurate.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources. The images tie directly to the text.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Why Predictive Assessments May Be the Jolt Your Hiring Process Needs

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With that data in tow, create a job description and see how it compares to objective data culled about candidates' natural strengths and talents. For example, collecting metrics about the performance of hires can help you measure whether your methods attracted the most successful employees.

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What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

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While scavenging the internet and other public platforms, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) users cull information and then analyze it to yield valuable intelligence. In this information age, making sense of all the data we're collecting is the biggest challenge we face, and simultaneously, our biggest opportunity.