"The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people,……" — Alex Shoumatoff

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• Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation… — Lev S. Vygotsky
• In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain… — Ernst Haeckel
• The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation… — Julian Huxley
• Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety… — Douglass North
• Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology,… — Bob Ney
• Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its… — Johan Huizinga
• The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on… — Dick Morris
• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless… — Konrad Lorenz
• Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive… — George Gaylord Simpson
• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist… — Niles Eldredge
• A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and… — Jerry Sabloff
• United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization. — Adam Hartung

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