...) fighting and 'fathering' (of daughter-cells), could with some confidence be extended to include foraging and *freezing* (similar to the adaptive function of both hibernation - whether general or specific/synaptic, ... though I think replication would be mostly option 4 where the daughter cell separates from the father cell. Foraging would be option 1 moving toward food nurturing. Freezing would be sleeping which I tend to think is...

...-down". That is, what I concluded was that "the four F's" [feeding, fleeing, and (though not relevant to/not on repertoire of amoebas) fighting and 'fathering' (of daughter-cells), could with some confidence be extended to include foraging and *freezing* (similar to the adaptive function of both hibernation - whether general or specific/synaptic, though only 'general hibernation' is possible in the case of single-celled animals).

..., chestnuts and bangers of the comestible variety. Having a wholesale and retail greengrocery as part of the business, we provided chestnuts and potatoes as well as the "manufactured" timber for the fire. As kids, we would forage for broken boughs and combustible garden wastes as the main structure of the fire and then I with my father or uncle would load up the Ford van ( which more often than not would need cranking rather than...

...be transported. In fact, given that veg provides less than meat a higher volume of vehicle movements would be need to provide a veggie diet for the whole country. C'mon. You haven't seen Lugless's proposals for *everybody elses* veggie diet. Eggsample (No Eggs) Starters Grass (Various) Main Course Forage (Various) Sweet Caramelised Bluebell Bulbs Anastasia. (If in season). Else: Grass (Various) Derek

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...... When the first group of foragers arrives at the edge of their...only give me... um... half." The foragers look at each other, bemused. ...stain on a nearby boulder. The foragers are baffled by this outlandish performance...title deed to prove it. The foragers naturally laugh at this idiotic ... of hunting and gathering, the foragers go to return to their ... incantation, "First possession!" but the foragers are unimpressed. When he forcibly ...

...> A huge trail of ants (many hundreds) was on my kitchen counter last night so I sprayed them with vinnegar (I was out of windex so I used vinnegar instead). Being late, and wishing the vinnegar to discourage new foragers, I retired for the evening. Much to my chagrin, another, even larger swarm of Argentine ants had taken over my counter top, this morning - and the dead ants seem to have disappeared. I was ...

... A huge trail of ants (many hundreds) was on my kitchen counter last night so I sprayed them with vinnegar (I was out of windex so I used vinnegar instead). Being late, and wishing the vinnegar to discourage new foragers, I retired for the evening. Much to my chagrin, another, even larger swarm of Argentine ants had taken over my counter top, this morning - and the dead ants seem to have disappeared. I was surprised. ...

... receiver. They have to be - Newton don't cut it in this application. Now try a car-wreck. What is that supposed to mean? Presumably, that Newtonian physics works just fine in finite element analysis. Wot he said. -- This is part of the eternal wonder of the universe as man forages out to discover in the womb of time the nascence of his individuality in the motherhood of possibility. < Malzberg

... A huge trail of ants (many hundreds) was on my kitchen counter last night so I sprayed them with vinnegar (I was out of windex so I used vinnegar instead). Being late, and wishing the vinnegar to discourage new foragers, I retired for the evening. Much to my chagrin, another, even larger swarm of Argentine ants had taken over my counter top, this morning - and the dead ants seem to have disappeared. I was surprised. ...