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... amount of productivity because the amount of information conveyed does not increase at the same rate that the length of the utterance increases . A " danger " call repeated twenty times in succession is not much different from " danger ...
... amount of productivity because the amount of information conveyed does not increase at the same rate that the length of the utterance increases . A " danger " call repeated twenty times in succession is not much different from " danger ...
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... amount of wood - ash fertilizer will be produced by burning . On the other hand , if the trees revert to climax - forest size , they will be very difficult to cut down . Optimum regeneration may take anywhere from ten to twenty years or ...
... amount of wood - ash fertilizer will be produced by burning . On the other hand , if the trees revert to climax - forest size , they will be very difficult to cut down . Optimum regeneration may take anywhere from ten to twenty years or ...
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... amount of indirect labor put into food production exceeds the amount of direct labor . An Iowa corn farmer puts in 9 hours of work per acre , which yield 81 bushels of corn with an energy equivalent of 8,164,800 calories . This gives a ...
... amount of indirect labor put into food production exceeds the amount of direct labor . An Iowa corn farmer puts in 9 hours of work per acre , which yield 81 bushels of corn with an energy equivalent of 8,164,800 calories . This gives a ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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