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Birds' tongues a lesson in adaptation.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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January 7, 2008
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Byline: Mary Taylor Young
"Do birds have tongues?"
My 8-year-old asked this question as she watched a flicker eating suet at our backyard feeder.
Yes, birds have tongues, but they aren't like ours. There are as many tongue designs as there are kinds of birds, each adapted to a different feeding strategy.
Seed-eating songbirds like finches and sparrows use their tongues almost like fingers, manipulating a seed into the correct position, cracking it open with their bills, then plucking the meat out with their tongues.
Woodpeckers ...
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Serving the food of full-grown adults
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; ...by Islam.2 The factors that animated Donatism are extremely complex and controverted...view, shared by some historians,3 Donatism was motivated at root by sectarian arrogance...unblemished Christian tradition. As such, Donatism shook preAugustinian ecclesiology at...
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Serving the food of full-grown adults: Augustine's interpretation of Scripture and the nurture of Christians.
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; ...Islam.(2) The factors that animated Donatism are extremely complex and controverted...view, shared by some historians,(3) Donatism was motivated at root by sectarian arrogance...unblemished Christian tradition. As such, Donatism shook pre-Augustinian ecclesiology...
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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 16) July 20, 2008.(Preaching Helps)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission
; ...conflict over the weeds and wheat was Donatism. Heir to the rigorist tradition of Tertullian...church's scriptural defense against Donatism. While it would be nice to say that...amicably, the truth is that the end of Donatism came through the application of force...
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Scandal time. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(child sexual abuse and priests)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ...and Catholics have been exuberant in their condemnation of Donatism. We all have a steep stake in the rightness of that condemnation. At the same time, the orthodoxy of anti-Donatism is not to be confused with moral indifference. All three...
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen.(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...spectacle is less an example of American Puritanism than of Donatism. The Donatists, a fourth-century Christian sect arising...communication of grace through the priesthood. The reason Donatism didn't survive is that it made the personal purity of its...
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Liberty, Dominion and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398)
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review
; ...under Constantine and his successors to focused explorations of Donatism and the figures of Lucifer of Cagliari and Hilary of Poitiers...African Christian understandings (especially in Tertullian, but Donatism also makes an interesting case study), then in western Nicene...
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The Archaeology of Early Christianity
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...include discoveries bearing on such issues as the importance of Donatism, the character and importance of Gnosticism and other dissenting...speak for themselves, e.g. movements such as Gnosticism, Donatism and Manichaeism. While appreciating the genuine accomplishments...
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Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate at the Time of Augustine.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...a domesticated heir of Cyprian and the milieu that produced Donatism. The second half of the book moves from a literary to a historical...life of a man schooled in the episcopal culture in the age of Donatism (83-84). She reveals the deliberate way in which the Donatists...
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Episcopal traditionalists convene; Conferees seek rebirth of 'united Anglicanism in North America'.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...said Episcopal conservatives may be unwittingly agreeing with Donatism, a fourth-century heresy. "It determined that the validity...who administers it," she said. The early church refuted Donatism, she said, and St. Augustine, she added, "would have...
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The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...actual principles of Manicheism, Platonism, Pelagianism, Donatism, and pagan aristocracy can be detected in the worldview of...contemporary Americans committed to the heresies of Manicheism, Donatism, Platonism, Pelagianism, and paganism. Consider as an example...
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