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It must be emphasized, of course, that language preceded numeracy, but it is interesting to see how very early in man's acculturation the ability to deal with the abstract notion of counting manifested itself and was then transferred into an encodable form.
The LAT goes with what looks like a California story, but is really a national one: Governor Pete Wilson's okaying of moving the state's presidential primary up to March 7th, where it will be preceded only by the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Figure 3shows an evolutionary scenario, using a Fitch diagram [ 29], that depicts the suggested origin of trpD paralogs via two gene duplication events (Dp1 and Dp2) that preceded the node of speciation divergence (Sp4) to Nostoc (Npu) and Anabaena (Asp).
Antiviral use was not extensive, and the current study dates preceded the introduction of zanamivir and oseltamivir.
In some experiments, this sustained elevation of cytoplasmic calcium was preceded by a transient rise as observed in low calcium Locke's (as in Figure 1).