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... course , have failed on the way . Comparatively few thousand years ago there was a very rich fauna of large animals on the American continent , then that most dangerous of all predators man - got into the continent towards the end of ...
... course , have failed on the way . Comparatively few thousand years ago there was a very rich fauna of large animals on the American continent , then that most dangerous of all predators man - got into the continent towards the end of ...
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... course , the caterpillar is a very different - looking creature from the but- terfly . Of course , in neither of these cases is it really true to say that the changed circumstances are unpredictable . It is probably fair to say that the ...
... course , the caterpillar is a very different - looking creature from the but- terfly . Of course , in neither of these cases is it really true to say that the changed circumstances are unpredictable . It is probably fair to say that the ...
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... course with a number of difficulties , as in the steeplechase . We have been taking a look at a variety of different ways of handling a kind of situation we are not used to , any more than a land dweller is used to handling the sea ...
... course with a number of difficulties , as in the steeplechase . We have been taking a look at a variety of different ways of handling a kind of situation we are not used to , any more than a land dweller is used to handling the sea ...
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