All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall. […] Without Nihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being. Nihil disappears.

Whole organism anatomical data are usually examined with specific hypotheses in mind; specifically that they are testing ideas about functional adaptations, convergences and parallels, or about primitivenesses, derivednesses and phylogeny.

The house was very knackery looking.

In the introduction to this volume of essays the editor, Gary Backhaus, defines ecoscape as the organizational shape of a habitat for life which "makes thematic the spatial configuration (shape) of the interrelations and relations comprising some life-sustaining world.