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The Judaeo-Christian ethic arose within cultures that needed to produce large families in order to survive. The Judaeans originally adopted the sexually promiscuous culture of the Canaanites, but eventually developed their own ethic under the influence of the middle east cultures around them. Through the direction of Paul, Christians took the Judaean ethic and transmitted it throughout the Roman empire. The negative attitude toward sex was a reaction to the crude sensuality and brutality of the dominant cultures. A proper positive code of justifiable appropriate sexual conduct will depend on a thorough examination and selection of the best human practices.

"The aim of this project was to produce software that would enhance the existing method of the Dial-A-Vote booking and monitoring procedures to provide both Telecom and the customers a simpler, more direct and efficient system. The software was written using Linkup - a Telecom internally written data communications software package." -- introduction, leaf 1.

The tawny-bellied cotton rat, Sigmodon fulviventer dalquesti, is a Texas endemic subspecies reported only from a collection that occurred in 1991 near the town of Fort Davis in the Trans-Pecos region. The current population, distribution, and evolutionary origin of S. f. dalquesti is enigmatic, and its taxonomic status is uncertain. For example, the relationship among S. f. dalquesti and other S. fulviventer subspecies in Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico is not well understood, and previous genetic comparisons only included one specimen in a phylogenetic assessment of the genus. Hence, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department''s Texas Conservation Action Plan designates S. f. dalquesti as critically imperiled within the state and suffering from data deficiency. The current study provides a more comprehensive cranial morphometric and genetic treatment of S. f. dalquesti. Analysis of craniometric characters, mitochondrial cytochrome b, and full mitochondrial genome data presented herein support continued recognition of S. f. dalquesti, which is at least as distinct from the other subspecies available for comparison as the other subspecies are from each other. A potential founding source of S. f. dalquesti from the main S. fulviventer distribution is indicated by phylogenetic affinity and a two-codon insertion at the beginning of the ND2 gene shared by all S. f. dalquesti, and one S. f. minimus from northern Mexico. Distribution modeling suggests under-surveyed areas of potential range extension. However, despite multiple field surveys during this study in the area of the original detection, S. f. dalquesti was never captured. It is not possible to say if this reflects extinction or a population size occurring below the limit of detection during the survey period.