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... specific organs to meet specific needs : respiratory apparatus for breathing , teeth for biting and chew- ing , and the neural mechanism for such specific drives and aversions as hunger , sex , rage , and fear . Nature has done more ...
... specific organs to meet specific needs : respiratory apparatus for breathing , teeth for biting and chew- ing , and the neural mechanism for such specific drives and aversions as hunger , sex , rage , and fear . Nature has done more ...
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... specific requirements but , in a broader sense , through the failure to meet cultural require- ments at large . There may be both a certain kind of resonant flexibility which makes children ready for the cultural assimila- tion process ...
... specific requirements but , in a broader sense , through the failure to meet cultural require- ments at large . There may be both a certain kind of resonant flexibility which makes children ready for the cultural assimila- tion process ...
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... specific colors , tones , tastes , lines , surfaces , solids , persons , social situa- tions ; indeed , upon integrated wholes from very simple to very complex . There may be canalization not only upon content but upon process . One may ...
... specific colors , tones , tastes , lines , surfaces , solids , persons , social situa- tions ; indeed , upon integrated wholes from very simple to very complex . There may be canalization not only upon content but upon process . One may ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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