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(ketheriel,Samedi 30 Mai 2009 15h10)
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In fact they were first through the second evolution of this form
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In fact they were first, WE'RE the second evolution of this form, the ancien having explored the galaxy for millions of years. Please, don't.
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We are about to evacuate this city in the hope that it will lie safe for many years and then, one day, our kind will return. (He looks at Elizabeth.) And they have.
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Which should come as no surprise since they are the second evolution of our kind. Don’t you understand? This city will survive ten thousand years.
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kind
–noun
1. a class or group of individual objects, people, animals, etc., of the same nature or character, or classified together because they have traits in common; category: Our dog is the same kind as theirs.
2. nature or character as determining likeness or difference between things: These differ in degree rather than in kind.
3. a person or thing as being of a particular character or class: He is a strange kind of hero.
4. a more or less adequate or inadequate example of something; sort: The vines formed a kind of roof.
5. Archaic.
a. the nature, or natural disposition or character.
b. manner; form.
6. Obsolete. gender; sex.
—Idioms
7. in kind,
a. in something of the same kind or in the same way as that received or borne: They will be repaid in kind for their rudeness.
b. in goods, commodities, or services rather than money: In colonial times, payment was often made in kind.
8. kind of, Informal. to some extent; somewhat; rather: The room was kind of dark.
9. of a kind, of the same class, nature, character, etc.: They are two of a kind.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME kinde, OE gecynd nature, race, origin; c. ON kyndi, OHG kikunt, L gēns (gen. gentis); see kin
Synonyms:
1. order, genus, species; race, breed; set.
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evolution
–noun
1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
2. a product of such development; something evolved: The exploration of space is the evolution of decades of research.
3. Biology. change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
4. a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development, as in social or economic structure or institutions.
5. a motion incomplete in itself, but combining with coordinated motions to produce a single action, as in a machine.
6. a pattern formed by or as if by a series of movements: the evolutions of a figure skater.
7. an evolving or giving off of gas, heat, etc.
8. Mathematics. the extraction of a root from a quantity. Compare involution (def. 8).
9. a movement or one of a series of movements of troops, ships, etc., as for disposition in order of battle or in line on parade.
10. any similar movement, esp. in close order drill.
Ceci exclus l'artificiel, l'évolution étant définie comme étant naturelle => lien naturel, et la descendance est suggérée par la non présence de complement a "they were first", qui veut dire, ils furent les premiers-(avant nous).
(ceci ne s'applique que a la voie lactée)
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