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dynamics” (clearly an area of more unknowns than knowns) and “plant and animal
distributions” in relation to biochemistry and physiology, again, extraordinarily
broad swathes of gap analysis.
2
Behavioral trends and distribution patterns are the product of perceptions, caught
out in the whorls of near meaningless syncretism and exegesis (a cascade of metadata without a meta-framework). Quasi-meaningless in so far as, to paraphrase
sculptor Henry Moore, every idea has a physical shape. But in the discrepancies of
thought surrounding the physical, and vice versa, historical interpretations of
2 By N.  Gilbert, AQ.  P. Gutierrez, B.  D. Frazer, and R.  E. Jones, W.H.  Freeman and Company,
Reading and San Francisco, 1976, pp. 89–90.
Fig. 65.1 From a Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature, by Richard Bradley, W. Mears,
printer, London 1721, p. 171
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