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... evolutionary pressures actually select for mechanisms that will move it toward and keep it near this state . Perhaps the most spectacular example is James Lovelock's " Gaia hypothesis , " according to which the earth itself , or at ...
... evolutionary pressures actually select for mechanisms that will move it toward and keep it near this state . Perhaps the most spectacular example is James Lovelock's " Gaia hypothesis , " according to which the earth itself , or at ...
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... evolutionary thought , however , is the strong parallel between his fascination with the number of digits on both animals and humans and that of Wells in The Island of Doctor Moreau . Maupertuis returns to the subject of sexual reproduc ...
... evolutionary thought , however , is the strong parallel between his fascination with the number of digits on both animals and humans and that of Wells in The Island of Doctor Moreau . Maupertuis returns to the subject of sexual reproduc ...
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... evolutionary thought in Maupertuis's work strongly foreshadows the later connection of entropy and evolution in Wells's writing . In the nineteenth century , it was Helmholtz who first specifically suggested the applicability of entropy ...
... evolutionary thought in Maupertuis's work strongly foreshadows the later connection of entropy and evolution in Wells's writing . In the nineteenth century , it was Helmholtz who first specifically suggested the applicability of entropy ...
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