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... close to their original habi- tat ? Climax habitats , where nature has approached an equilibrium , may take centuries to reestablish once they have been destroyed . Sometimes they never return to their former state , like cleared areas ...
... close to their original habi- tat ? Climax habitats , where nature has approached an equilibrium , may take centuries to reestablish once they have been destroyed . Sometimes they never return to their former state , like cleared areas ...
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... close off some of the options and enforce partic- ular responsibilities toward each other . We have become surprisingly , but not fully , monogamous of our own free will . We have not wired in such behavior , like the gibbon , but the ...
... close off some of the options and enforce partic- ular responsibilities toward each other . We have become surprisingly , but not fully , monogamous of our own free will . We have not wired in such behavior , like the gibbon , but the ...
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... close kin . It is fairly easy to calculate how many genes are shared , on average , with any class of relative . Hence , Haldanes ' famous remark , " I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins . " ( See Fig . 9.1A , B ...
... close kin . It is fairly easy to calculate how many genes are shared , on average , with any class of relative . Hence , Haldanes ' famous remark , " I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins . " ( See Fig . 9.1A , B ...
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WHAT WHERE | 3 |
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES | 34 |
FOOD AND FEEDING | 45 |
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