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tions difficult . With a human subject it is only necessary to ask : what color is this ? does that hurt ? are you hungry ? The human subject may , of course , lie ; the fly cannot . However , to elicit information from him it is ...
tions difficult . With a human subject it is only necessary to ask : what color is this ? does that hurt ? are you hungry ? The human subject may , of course , lie ; the fly cannot . However , to elicit information from him it is ...
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... human race have striven mightily to free themselves entirely of the neces- sity of imbibing water by substituting other fluids , but this endeavor has met with limited success . Animals are at best imperfect vessels , and this imper ...
... human race have striven mightily to free themselves entirely of the neces- sity of imbibing water by substituting other fluids , but this endeavor has met with limited success . Animals are at best imperfect vessels , and this imper ...
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... human cultures and imitated in the name of art by our own ) , but most often the feet are involved . One would imagine from a purely statistical point of view that the more feet a creature possessed the more complicated the dance it ...
... human cultures and imitated in the name of art by our own ) , but most often the feet are involved . One would imagine from a purely statistical point of view that the more feet a creature possessed the more complicated the dance it ...
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