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... human beings are different from those in human beings . Electrical inputs over elec- trodes to the cortical regions that subserve speech in human beings elicit sounds of vocalization . This is not true in monkeys . Moreover , neither ...
... human beings are different from those in human beings . Electrical inputs over elec- trodes to the cortical regions that subserve speech in human beings elicit sounds of vocalization . This is not true in monkeys . Moreover , neither ...
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... human societies . Human beings have a longer period of growth . The brain of the human infant continues to grow at the fetal rate for the first 18 months after birth , and in the first months the infant is quite helpless . Apes can be ...
... human societies . Human beings have a longer period of growth . The brain of the human infant continues to grow at the fetal rate for the first 18 months after birth , and in the first months the infant is quite helpless . Apes can be ...
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... human being . The " turtles " which Walter built and named Elma and Elsie might be looked upon as precursors of such artificial men . 584 They crawl about in response to the varying strengths of the light in different regions of their ...
... human being . The " turtles " which Walter built and named Elma and Elsie might be looked upon as precursors of such artificial men . 584 They crawl about in response to the varying strengths of the light in different regions of their ...
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