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The Evolved Imagination: Animals as models of their world | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
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by Richard Dawkins In the pioneering days of radio, my grandfather's job was to lecture to young engineers who were joining Marconi's company. To illustrate that any complex wave form can be broken down into summed simple waves of different frequencies (important in both radio and acou...Links
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