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... Biological systems during their evolution have produced some very ingenious ways of retaining flexibility to meet unforeseen demands without sacrificing too much in immediate efficiency when dealing with the normal prevailing circum ...
... Biological systems during their evolution have produced some very ingenious ways of retaining flexibility to meet unforeseen demands without sacrificing too much in immediate efficiency when dealing with the normal prevailing circum ...
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... biological warfare ; and organizations , like the International Union of Biological Sciences , which have tried to set up ' look - out ' committees which try to think out the social consequences of various types of research , e.g. on ...
... biological warfare ; and organizations , like the International Union of Biological Sciences , which have tried to set up ' look - out ' committees which try to think out the social consequences of various types of research , e.g. on ...
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... Biology and Knowledge , University of Edinburgh Press and University of Chicago Press , 1971. I have discussed them in ... biological systems by I. M. Gel'fand and M. L. Tsetlin , published ( in Russian ) in the Proceedings of the Soviet ...
... Biology and Knowledge , University of Edinburgh Press and University of Chicago Press , 1971. I have discussed them in ... biological systems by I. M. Gel'fand and M. L. Tsetlin , published ( in Russian ) in the Proceedings of the Soviet ...
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