Dominant Mammal: The Biology of Human DestinyEn biologs overvejelser af mulighederne for fortsat menneskeligt liv på jorden set i lyset af forurening, truende overbefolkning, råstofforbrug og oprustning. |
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... produce what people need or desire . Historically , there can be no doubt whatever that this was what led , through ... producing a flint arrow - head in Neolithic times was a relatively precise series of manoeuvres capable of being ...
... produce what people need or desire . Historically , there can be no doubt whatever that this was what led , through ... producing a flint arrow - head in Neolithic times was a relatively precise series of manoeuvres capable of being ...
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... producing their own needs of food and shelter , and it can only develop where there is a defined social structure by which one man , who desires what the artist can produce , can ensure that less - gifted men do the work that pro- vides ...
... producing their own needs of food and shelter , and it can only develop where there is a defined social structure by which one man , who desires what the artist can produce , can ensure that less - gifted men do the work that pro- vides ...
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... producing just what all his contemporaries could produce and , on the other , introducing changes which only he could execute but which went beyond what his patrons , conditioned by traditional tastes , were willing to tolerate . A ...
... producing just what all his contemporaries could produce and , on the other , introducing changes which only he could execute but which went beyond what his patrons , conditioned by traditional tastes , were willing to tolerate . A ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Exponential Impossibilities | 19 |
Dominance in Animals and Man | 40 |
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