An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
MONOPHYLETIC
Etymology
Adjective
monophyletic (not comparable)
(biology) Of, pertaining to, or affecting a single phylum (or other taxon) of organisms.
(biology) Deriving from a single clade (monophylum).
(biology) Descending from a single ancestral species.
Descending from a single ancestral species and containing all descendants of that single ancestor, holophyletic.
Descending from a single ancestral species but not containing all descendants of that ancestor, paraphyletic.
Source: Wiktionary
Mon`o*phy*let"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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