Monday, April 4, 2011 - Echo Bay Campground, Lake Mead NV
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Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
It's a short flight home
The herons are gathering nesting materials from plants and shrubs growing right on the craggy cliff face within a few hundred feet of the nest.
Night camp
Site 36 - Echo Bay Lower Campground, Overton Arm, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Lake Mead NV
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Echo Bay Lower Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Few genes are required
One's brain is powerfully activated by learning that there are only 30,000 genes in the human genome. That is only twice as many as in the fruit fly, not renowned for its calculating ability, and about as many as a garden weed. Geneticists are sorely vexed that so few genes are required to make something as complex and clever as a geneticist.
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