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Crow’s essay (1966) on “The Quality of People: Human Evolutionary Changes” posed a number of important problems concerning the evolutionary future of the
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The Industrial Revolution made us precariously dependent on nature’s dwindling legacy of non-renewable resources, even though we did not at first recognize this
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“Unthinkable” thoughts have the virtue of bringing serious consideration of wholly repressed ideas, as evidenced by the laugh that often accompanies them. They
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Sun Dong-sheng of the Jinan Army Institute remarked: “The requirements of modern science, technology, and production, and the speed with which their development
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One of the key characteristics that distinguishes long-term defence planning from shorter-term planning is the degree to which uncertainty pervades the process. THE
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