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... chreod , or even collections of roughly parallel chreods , as is seen in the wealth diagrams . When an egg is developing , different parts of it will follow different courses of develop- ment , and eventually finish up forming different ...
... chreod , or even collections of roughly parallel chreods , as is seen in the wealth diagrams . When an egg is developing , different parts of it will follow different courses of develop- ment , and eventually finish up forming different ...
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... chreod ' , and bites you , or in the ' frightened chreod ' , and runs away . Many other students of animal behaviour have described similar pheno- mena , when it is touch and go whether a male and female fight or mate ; though they ...
... chreod ' , and bites you , or in the ' frightened chreod ' , and runs away . Many other students of animal behaviour have described similar pheno- mena , when it is touch and go whether a male and female fight or mate ; though they ...
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... chreods , catas- trophes in the sense we discussed above , be allowed to continue . I think what we are concerned with ... chreod as an attractor surface in a multi - dimensional space , a catastrophe corre- sponds to an overlapping fold ...
... chreods , catas- trophes in the sense we discussed above , be allowed to continue . I think what we are concerned with ... chreod as an attractor surface in a multi - dimensional space , a catastrophe corre- sponds to an overlapping fold ...
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