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So individuals with mutations that reduced the length of their tails became more successful at life on land, surviving long enough to pass their short tails on to the next generation.
So we think it used to help us swing from branch to branch, and became unnecessary when we moved down to land.
And I realized that, you know, through the imperfection of the machine, our imperfections became what was beautiful about the interaction.
My robot D.O.U.G. became a real-time interactive reflection of the work I'd done through the course of my life.
Our system extracted those states from the feeds as positional data and became pads for my robotic units to draw on.
And classic Australian bullshit became some sort of forward movement and a phone number.
In 1820, French astronomer Alexis Bouvard almost became the second person in human history to discover a planet.
The story of prediction and discrepancy and new theory and triumphant discoveries is so classic and Le Verrier became so famous from it, that people tried to get in on the act right away.
We garnered much support along the way, and the Hunts Point Riverside Park became the first waterfront park that the South Bronx had had in more than 60 years.
And as others like him pursued their own version of the American dream, white flight became common in the South Bronx and in many cities around the country.
The groups became stronger.
They became more robust.
So I tried stepping up the curb the way I'd always known how, front on, for days on end, with no success, until it became obvious that the time and effort I was investing into this endeavor was clearly disproportionate to the benefit of its outcome.
Not only did it transform my ability to problem-solve, but I also felt I became more pragmatic, less sensitive to hindrances, in some cases, more patient, and magically transformed people's abilities to offer me their seats on public transport.
The benefit of not dwelling on the negative and just getting on with the task at hand became self-evident.
It took time and trial and error to find treatments that did more good than harm, but by the end of World War II, they discovered what became known as the first chemotherapy drugs.
As food became plentiful here, it also meant that we were able to decrease the number of people working in agriculture to something like, on average, in the high income countries, five percent or less of the population.
So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper.
And as it became cheaper, bread manufacturers decided to add in all kinds of things.
And within just a couple years, San Francisco became the first no-kill city, running no deficit, completely supported by the community.
So my visit to Uluru quickly became not about me but about connecting with the place.
And that became the headline of a Fortune article.
And that became the Interface plan in 1995, and has been the plan ever since.
Here is what happened: Now the most popular option became the least popular, and the least popular became the most popular.
In 2016, France became the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away unused food.
It took me over a decade to internalize the severity of HIBM, even as basic tasks and functions became increasingly difficult.
Diogenes and his growing number of followers became known as “dog philosophers,” or kynikoi, a designation that eventually became the word “Cynic.”
As alcohol consumption became part of everyday life, some authorities latched onto effects they perceived as positive— Greek physicians considered wine to be good for health, and poets testified to its creative qualities.
Then, spirits became an important trade commodity because, unlike beer and wine, they didn’t spoil.
Rum made from sugar harvested in European colonies in the Caribbean became a staple for sailors and was traded to North America.
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