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    Lamarckism (redirect from Use and disuse)
    physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also called the inheritance of acquired characteristics...
    101 KB (10,509 words) - 01:57, 9 July 2024
  • College/Columbia Univ. McGeoch JA (July 1932). "Forgetting and the law of disuse". Psychological Review. 39 (4): 352–370. doi:10.1037/h0069819. Brown J (February...
    15 KB (1,867 words) - 15:06, 15 September 2023
  • Disuse supersensitivity, also pharmacological disuse supersensitivity or pharmacological denervation supersensitivity, is the increased sensitivity by...
    2 KB (181 words) - 10:19, 16 January 2024
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    called Lamarckism (inaccurately named after him), soft inheritance, or use/disuse theory, which he described in his 1809 Philosophie zoologique. However,...
    48 KB (5,531 words) - 18:04, 15 June 2024
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    listed building. It was constructed in the 12th century, but fell into disuse after the Reformation. In the 19th century the chapel was restored and today...
    10 KB (1,043 words) - 06:04, 11 June 2023
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    well as OJJR (its Jordanian persona), but the airport itself fell into disuse. In the contiguous United States and Canada, many airports have ICAO codes...
    31 KB (1,055 words) - 20:06, 26 July 2024
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    It was widely known throughout the Roman Empire. Ancient Greek fell into disuse in Western Europe in the Middle Ages but remained officially in use in the...
    68 KB (6,900 words) - 22:03, 5 August 2024
  • earlier authors meant when using the name. Modern practice has seen the disuse of ovoviviparity in favour of the more specific definitions of lecithotrophic...
    7 KB (791 words) - 21:22, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oldway Mansion
    Oldway Mansion is a large house and gardens in Paignton, Devon, England. It was built as a private residence for Isaac Singer (1811–1875), and rebuilt...
    20 KB (2,097 words) - 07:20, 23 May 2024
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    earlier tendency was to redefine an older word although this has fallen into disuse (e.g., هاتف hātif 'telephone' < 'invisible caller (in Sufism)'; جريدة jarīdah...
    148 KB (14,078 words) - 15:06, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chronophotographic gun
    The chronophotographic gun is one of the ancestors of the movie camera. It was invented in 1882 by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist and chronophotographer...
    7 KB (916 words) - 16:19, 21 July 2024
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    valid, the owner must continue to use it. In some circumstances, such as disuse, failure to assert trademark rights, or common usage by the public without...
    55 KB (5,826 words) - 15:38, 31 July 2024
  • (TrueColor) displays, and the use of "web-safe" colors has fallen into practical disuse. The "web-safe" colors do not all have standard names, but each can be specified...
    30 KB (3,332 words) - 08:47, 11 July 2024
  • The equal-field system (Chinese: 均田制度; pinyin: Jūntián Zhìdù) or land-equalization system was a system of land ownership and distribution in China used...
    5 KB (726 words) - 04:28, 23 June 2023
  • the reign of Claudius, and the practice of characterising days fell into disuse around the end of the first century AD: the Antonine jurist Gaius speaks...
    77 KB (9,526 words) - 17:15, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scrim and sarking
    Scrim and sarking is a method of interior construction widely used in Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this method...
    2 KB (245 words) - 18:19, 15 March 2024
  • with this accent mark, the once commonplace marking has fallen nearly into disuse today. Finally, the tenuto mark, shown fifth above, generally means that...
    9 KB (1,124 words) - 16:42, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portsmouth Naval Prison
    Portsmouth Naval Prison is a former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison on the grounds of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) in Kittery, Maine. The building...
    13 KB (1,520 words) - 14:37, 21 June 2024
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    including two games of the 1905 World Series. Columbia Park fell into disuse after the Athletics' move in 1909 to the larger Shibe Park, and was demolished...
    11 KB (1,198 words) - 04:38, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Badge of Military Merit
    1813. After the Revolutionary War, the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse although it was never officially abolished. In 1932, the United States War...
    12 KB (1,320 words) - 02:34, 11 February 2024
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