Biology
- Climax community, a biological community that has reached a steady state because the life there is best adapted to the area
- Climax vegetation, the vegetation that establishes itself after a long absence of human activity
- Sexual climax, another term for orgasm
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“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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