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But these refashioned Knicks are not very fun to watch, and nowhere near a lock as a playoff team, not even in a junk division where the sub-.500, paleozoic Celtics sit in second place.
Giants Hide Knick Pain Jason Gay 2012
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You are absolutely correct that over the time period that life has existed on earth in complex, multicellular, differentiated-tissue forms (the paleozoic through the cenozoic) co2 concentrations have been much higher than they have been recently.
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As much as any destination, it is these isolated periods in untried hotel rooms, in paleozoic canyons, in disintegrating palaces and empty service-station restaurants that facilitate the underlying point of our journeys.
Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way? Alain de Botton 2011
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It also lies on a Precambrian bedrock peneplain, with deep paleozoic sediments, but unlike the boulder-rich moraine of the archipelago, the moraines of Hudson Bay are boulder-poor, owing to softer rocks.
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Unless you are involved in academic research CO2 levels in the paleozoic are irrelevant because so many other important variables affecting climate were different from today.
Think Progress » Columnist Grossly Distorts Study To Argue ‘We Can’t Do Much’ About Global Warming 2006
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‘Waldheimia’ less embryonic, or more specialized; than the paleozoic ‘Spirifer’; or the existing
Essays 2007
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And I am not sure that arthropod sizes peaked in the paleozoic.
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Add to that the fact that different species only exist in certain spans of time, such as dinosaurs in the mesozoic, or trilobites in the paleozoic.
Now this is how to critique Ken Ham's creation “museum” - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Geologically the Hajar and Musandem Mountains are comprised of paleozoic, metamorphic, and igneous rocks formed at the site of a mid-oceanic ridge in the Indian Ocean.
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But then, on careful consideration of the facts, the objection arises that the stalk, calyx, and arms of the paleozoic Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval ‘Comatula’; and it might with perfect justice be argued that ‘Actinocrinus’ and
Essays 2007
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