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... called homeostasis , ensuring the continuation of a given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a ...
... called homeostasis , ensuring the continuation of a given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a ...
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... called scientists are as diverse a bunch as those who might be called writers , who range all the way from advertisement copywriters , journalists , pornographers , pop magazine or sci - fi fictioneers , to serious critics , essayists ...
... called scientists are as diverse a bunch as those who might be called writers , who range all the way from advertisement copywriters , journalists , pornographers , pop magazine or sci - fi fictioneers , to serious critics , essayists ...
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... called ' The Tragedy of the Commons ' . Suppose a community possesses a piece of common land , on which anyone is free to graze his cattle was usual in medieval England . Any given person will always get more out of the system the more ...
... called ' The Tragedy of the Commons ' . Suppose a community possesses a piece of common land , on which anyone is free to graze his cattle was usual in medieval England . Any given person will always get more out of the system the more ...
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