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Island refuge
Wildlife conservation in Turkey does not get a high priority. Yet the country lies in a key location for birds migrating from Asia and Africa to Europe. Wildlife reserves exist but often have worryingly little support. So the development of Lake Kuyucuk in the Kars province of eastern Turkey as a wildlife reserve for thousands of birds of more than two hundred species, while also supporting loc...
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متن کاملNarrating Refuge
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متن کاملRefuge of spandrels
There is a strong and widely held belief that all organisms are perfect and that everything within them is there for a function. Believers ascribe to the Darwinian natural selection process a fastidious prescience that it cannot possibly have and some go so far as to think that patently useless features of existing organisms are there as investments for the future. I have especially encountered...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.006