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Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
The Huichol are one of the last remaining indigenous cultures that has been successful in retaining cultural integrity — despite efforts by the “civilized” world to westernize their traditional ways of living.
Rather than one gene duplicate retaining the original function, while the other either degrades or evolves a new function, the original functions of the single-copy gene may be partitioned between the duplicates (subfunctionalization).
Though now in disuse, it consists of a trench three feet deep, on sloping land, with a retaining wall on the uphill side.
ƒProviding good benefits packages and building core competencies are other ways of attracting, stimulating, and retaining IT workers¬ especially among today's Δself-preservation-minded generation-Xers.