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gestationIn all mammals except the monotremes (platypus and spiny anteaters), the period from the time of implantation of the embryo in the uterus to birth. This period varies among species; in humans it is about 266 days, in elephants 18-22 months, in cats about 60 days, and in some species of marsupial (such as opossum) as short as 12 days. |
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Actors go through this gestation period where it's like giving birth after nine months, and then they get nothing but critics tearing them down. After a gestation period of a hundred thousand years our human ancestors began to think like we do. Bonn, the potent warning for any potentially prolonged gestation period on such projects, started life as a competition win that year at the height of the Cold War, only to be declared redundant with the destruction of the wall less than two years after its completion. |
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