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... human terms ( such as the growth of human populations ) , or because they are small parts of ecosystems which are also changing , so that the inputs into the smaller system will have altered before it has been able to reach its end ...
... human terms ( such as the growth of human populations ) , or because they are small parts of ecosystems which are also changing , so that the inputs into the smaller system will have altered before it has been able to reach its end ...
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... Human Society What could one sensibly mean by ' stabilizing ' or ' controlling ' the human situation in the world of today or tomorrow ? The type of behaviour of progressive systems which we have just been discussing – a tendency to ...
... Human Society What could one sensibly mean by ' stabilizing ' or ' controlling ' the human situation in the world of today or tomorrow ? The type of behaviour of progressive systems which we have just been discussing – a tendency to ...
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... human preferences and the oddities of individual behaviour . Mathematical models and computer simulations of human behaviour have been developed and applied , ap- parently with reasonable success , to the prediction of voting behaviour ...
... human preferences and the oddities of individual behaviour . Mathematical models and computer simulations of human behaviour have been developed and applied , ap- parently with reasonable success , to the prediction of voting behaviour ...
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