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It has recently come to my attention that not only is there a highly active Wikimedia Discord Server, it also has a #wpbiology channel! See Wikipedia:Discord for more details.
I hope to feature a link to this on the main page after the redesign is complete, but for the time being I wanted to advertise it here. I would love for more people to join, and I hope it will prove a major resource to us going forward as we improve WP:BIOL and it's subprojects. I cannot emphasize how refreshing it can be to talk in real time (or even in voice channels!) rather than in talk pages.
@ Evolution and evolvability and Alexmar983: This also should serve us nicely for the user group discussions--they have a #meta channel as well.
Clarification needed (in-line template includes reason) from article Chronic wasting disease.
However, it is noted that as of 2013 [update], although CWD prions were transmissible within the cervidae family, CWD was not considered transmissible to humans or to cattle. [1]
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Recent research on Rocky Mountain elk found that with CWD-infected cows, clarification needed many subclinical, a high rate (80%) of maternal-to-offspring transmission of CWD prions occurred
Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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I've been having some confusion with how to handle human and non-human components in anatomy/biology (and related) articles. Is there a rule of thumb for this?
I was making a plan to resolve visual system and visual perception and noticed ambiguity on whether information was human-specific or vertebrate-specific.
Looking through some similar articles:
Ideas? Curran919 ( talk) 13:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
"entirely general, mentioning humans specifically, when applicable"and mentioning other species when applicable. There are many topics where so much work has been done on humans that article titles like Human sense of smell might be helpful, and there should be links to that from Sense of smell, but for an article about an aspect of biology to only or mostly talk about humans and ignore the rest of the tree of life is speciesist. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 15:58, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
I looked on various places and there's literally only Quora that says these:
"Most animals have no whites of their eyes showing, as humans do, and so it is difficult to see the epicanthic folds. They seem to be in young animals like puppies and kittens."
"They have, but you did not know about them. Also, some have even evolved an extra transparent eye lid for even more protection and so forth."
But, there's no reliable info on this in animals, so I tried looking clearly into puppy and kitten eyes especially those of Asian breeds, and I think they have them? I'm not really sure, but I'm inclined to think they do?
If anyone is able to find more info please tell me. I desperately need to know. LoverOfAllAnimalsActivist ( talk) 07:55, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)#Requested move 10 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) 02:17, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
This is the
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WikiProject Biology and anything related to its purposes and tasks. |
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Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14Auto-archiving period: 90 days |
Biology Project‑class | |||||||
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This page has archives. Sections older than 90 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 5 sections are present. |
There is a discussion in the archive of a consensus how scientific names are displayed in the lead of species articles listed under common names. |
It has recently come to my attention that not only is there a highly active Wikimedia Discord Server, it also has a #wpbiology channel! See Wikipedia:Discord for more details.
I hope to feature a link to this on the main page after the redesign is complete, but for the time being I wanted to advertise it here. I would love for more people to join, and I hope it will prove a major resource to us going forward as we improve WP:BIOL and it's subprojects. I cannot emphasize how refreshing it can be to talk in real time (or even in voice channels!) rather than in talk pages.
@ Evolution and evolvability and Alexmar983: This also should serve us nicely for the user group discussions--they have a #meta channel as well.
Clarification needed (in-line template includes reason) from article Chronic wasting disease.
However, it is noted that as of 2013 [update], although CWD prions were transmissible within the cervidae family, CWD was not considered transmissible to humans or to cattle. [1]
[...]
Recent research on Rocky Mountain elk found that with CWD-infected cows, clarification needed many subclinical, a high rate (80%) of maternal-to-offspring transmission of CWD prions occurred
Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
References
I've been having some confusion with how to handle human and non-human components in anatomy/biology (and related) articles. Is there a rule of thumb for this?
I was making a plan to resolve visual system and visual perception and noticed ambiguity on whether information was human-specific or vertebrate-specific.
Looking through some similar articles:
Ideas? Curran919 ( talk) 13:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
"entirely general, mentioning humans specifically, when applicable"and mentioning other species when applicable. There are many topics where so much work has been done on humans that article titles like Human sense of smell might be helpful, and there should be links to that from Sense of smell, but for an article about an aspect of biology to only or mostly talk about humans and ignore the rest of the tree of life is speciesist. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 15:58, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
I looked on various places and there's literally only Quora that says these:
"Most animals have no whites of their eyes showing, as humans do, and so it is difficult to see the epicanthic folds. They seem to be in young animals like puppies and kittens."
"They have, but you did not know about them. Also, some have even evolved an extra transparent eye lid for even more protection and so forth."
But, there's no reliable info on this in animals, so I tried looking clearly into puppy and kitten eyes especially those of Asian breeds, and I think they have them? I'm not really sure, but I'm inclined to think they do?
If anyone is able to find more info please tell me. I desperately need to know. LoverOfAllAnimalsActivist ( talk) 07:55, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)#Requested move 10 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) 02:17, 22 February 2024 (UTC)