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... started to multiply , at the same exponential rate as the primary journals , doubling in number every fifteen years , and reaching a total of 1,900 by the mid 1960s . By this time there had been developed a tertiary level of periodical ...
... started to multiply , at the same exponential rate as the primary journals , doubling in number every fifteen years , and reaching a total of 1,900 by the mid 1960s . By this time there had been developed a tertiary level of periodical ...
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... started a fire in a field of dry grass , which spread faster along the symmetry axis and more slowly outwards until it met some other already burnt area . FIG . 3b.5 The drawings in 3b.6 show successive stages of a system in which the ...
... started a fire in a field of dry grass , which spread faster along the symmetry axis and more slowly outwards until it met some other already burnt area . FIG . 3b.5 The drawings in 3b.6 show successive stages of a system in which the ...
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... started , cutting little pieces ( one - third millimetre across ) out of one embryo newt or chick and placing them , to fit , into a prepared hole in another embryo . What I first prided myself on , as a scientist , was that I could ...
... started , cutting little pieces ( one - third millimetre across ) out of one embryo newt or chick and placing them , to fit , into a prepared hole in another embryo . What I first prided myself on , as a scientist , was that I could ...
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