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... reasonably good account of how the body works as a machine from minute to minute , taking in food , digesting it , excreting the waste , using the energy of substances it absorbs to carry out various other processes and so on , this ...
... reasonably good account of how the body works as a machine from minute to minute , taking in food , digesting it , excreting the waste , using the energy of substances it absorbs to carry out various other processes and so on , this ...
Page 136
... reasonably accur- ate total count , though a few may die later from longer - term con- sequences . But usually such figures are wanted in connection with arguments about whether the roads are getting safer or more dangerous . So one is ...
... reasonably accur- ate total count , though a few may die later from longer - term con- sequences . But usually such figures are wanted in connection with arguments about whether the roads are getting safer or more dangerous . So one is ...
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... reasonably appropriate . Being able to do several differ- ent things almost inevitably involves some sacrifice of the very highest levels of performance at the normal task . Biological systems during their evolution have produced some ...
... reasonably appropriate . Being able to do several differ- ent things almost inevitably involves some sacrifice of the very highest levels of performance at the normal task . Biological systems during their evolution have produced some ...
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