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... trends might reverse ; but we are thinking now of cumulative trends or cumulative social changes , and it is quite possible that , on a very wide front , biological changes based upon such associations of genes are arising from the ...
... trends might reverse ; but we are thinking now of cumulative trends or cumulative social changes , and it is quite possible that , on a very wide front , biological changes based upon such associations of genes are arising from the ...
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... trends - for upon this possibility intelligent planning depends . The more serious social science predictions , the Utopias , the science fiction of today would all occupy alcoves in such a museum , with alcoves being constantly made ...
... trends - for upon this possibility intelligent planning depends . The more serious social science predictions , the Utopias , the science fiction of today would all occupy alcoves in such a museum , with alcoves being constantly made ...
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... trends have uti- lized such stuff as was at hand . The basic laws of physics , chem- istry , biology , and so on ... trends and human trends , both being ultimately the ex- pressions of the same requirements . To understand man more ...
... trends have uti- lized such stuff as was at hand . The basic laws of physics , chem- istry , biology , and so on ... trends and human trends , both being ultimately the ex- pressions of the same requirements . To understand man more ...
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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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