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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-298) |
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Part I: A complete inventory of the animals and supplies on the Ark -- 1. Which part of the animal kingdom was on the Ark? -- The living cargo: mammals, birds, and reptiles -- Taxonomic rank of the created kind -- Which animals were clean? -- The Ark animals by body-mass category -- 2. Floor space allotments for the animals -- 3. Quantities of water and provender required -- 4. Waste management -- The accumulation of excreta, and vermin control -- Decomposing excreta: odors and hazardous gases -- On-site disposal of manure through vermicomposting -- 5. Heating, ventilation, and illumination of the Ark |
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Part II: Alleged difficulties regarding the Ark and its cargo -- 6. Some factors in the construction of the Ark -- Wooden vessels of Ark size: were they possible? -- The engineering and infrastructure of the Ark -- 7. The gathering of animals suitable for year-long captivity -- The ancients' abilities in husbandry -- Ark animals from Antediluvian menageries -- The sexing of monomorphic animals -- Large animals as juveniles: the implications -- 8. Manpower studies: eight people to care for 16,000 animals -- Feeding and watering -- Manure handling and disposal -- Allocation of the eighty man-hours of daily labor -- 9. Basic living conditions on the Ark -- Implications of animal crowding -- The animals' immediate housing environment |
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10. The preservation of feedstuffs on the Ark -- 11. The colossal bulk of hay required for large herbivores -- High-fiber substitutes for hay -- Methods for greatly reducing hay density -- 12. Feeding challenges I: animals that eat fresh or live food -- Carnivores and piscivores -- Nectarivores and frugivores -- Insectivores and live-food eaters -- 13. Feeding challenges II: animals with specialized diets -- The vampire bat and king cobra -- Monophagic folivores: Colobine monkey, three-toed sloth, panda, and koala -- Specialized diets: a Post-Diluvian phenomenon? -- 14. Boarding the Ark: the fallacy of climatic barriers -- Tropical faunas in the cold -- Polar organisms in temperate climes -- Desert life in a desert-less world -- Bats and reptiles on the Ark -- 15. Dormancy of animals on the Ark |
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Part III: The recovery of the Earth's biosphere after the Flood -- 16. How organisms outside the Ark survived the Flood -- As aerial plankton -- In the floodwaters, which were tolerable -- 17. Biological effects of semi-saline floodwater -- 18. How amphibians survived the Flood -- 19. Alleged problems facing the Post-Diluvian plants -- Salty soils after the Flood? -- Arguments about seeds that will not float -- Overcoming seed dormancy -- Plant-pollinator symbioses -- Vegetative propagation and the olive branch -- 20. End-Flood events: why the Ark in the mountains? -- 21. Food sources in the "barren" PostFlood world -- 22. The first Post-Diluvian food chains |
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Part IV: The adequacy of single pairs in the repopulation of the world -- 23. Demographic ramifications on single-pair founders -- Animals which "breed only in flocks" -- Viable populations founded by single pairs -- The extent of Post-Flood ecological differentiation -- Rapid Post-Flood speciation -- 24. Avoiding the hazards of inbreeding -- Inbreeding depression and single-pair founders -- Inbreeding among Noah's descendants |
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25. The Ark animals: carriers of adequate genetic diversity -- The myth of the 50/500 rule -- Fallacies of "beanbag" genetics -- The bottleneck at the time of the Flood -- Genetics nad the selection of Ark animals -- 26. The Post-Flood generation of rare alleles -- Genetic monomorphism need not be harmful -- Alleles and heterozygosity: rates of increase -- The MHC complex and trans-species hypothesis -- 27. The restoration of variation in mitochondrial DNA -- 28. Was Noah afflicted with diseases? -- Part V: Conclusion -- 29. Conclusion |
| Subjects (Topics) |
Noah's ark
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Deluge
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| Bib utility control no. |
35397664 |
| OCLC no. (old) |
40910200 |
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