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... human species . It is a puzzling sort of shape to get a hold of . In fact although many bones in the body have been ... human ; while from another point of view , such as that used in 3b.8 , it is much less like the human and more like ...
... human species . It is a puzzling sort of shape to get a hold of . In fact although many bones in the body have been ... human ; while from another point of view , such as that used in 3b.8 , it is much less like the human and more like ...
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... human and social world are of this kind , either because they involve time - intervals which are very long in human terms ( such as the growth of human populations ) , or because they are small parts of ecosystems which are also ...
... human and social world are of this kind , either because they involve time - intervals which are very long in human terms ( such as the growth of human populations ) , or because they are small parts of ecosystems which are also ...
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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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