Every spring Mr. Wong has some surprises, for example, the cannas that actually survived a mild winter.
To make that claim, you have to make the move that Professor King makes, further down in the Smithsonian piece, and assume that the evidence we conspicuously don't have is somehow more telling than the sources that actually survived: The question the discovery raises, King told me, is, "Why is it that only the literature that said he was celibate survived?
In fact, Williams seems to have done just that in his discussion of group selection.[12] But Dawkins rejects this move, introducing an additional qualification to be fulfilled by a unit of selection; it must be "the unit that actually survives or fails to survive" (1982a, p. 60).
I still kill my share of plants -- I plead no contest your honor -- but some of them, the really tough ones that have been around the block a few times, the ones that can actually survive in a desert with no water or nutrients, miraculously manage to live under my hands.
Consumer staples is a sector that may actually survive the turmoil during the coming months, as consumers put off buying that new diamond necklace from Tiffany & Co. in favor of cereal, milk and detergent.
There are five kinds of grass that would actually survive California's drought quite well.
And long term, way long term, a thousand years long term, it's one of the only relics of 20th-century culture that will actually survive.
Her advice: Leave it to the glacier worms that actually do survive on the algae.
In fact, the data collected here were directly compared to a more extended analysis of one lineage from the previous study (termed 3D) that actually did survive to burst 50 [ 22].
Could a child that small actually survive?
