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One of those options was that we could have retreated into small family groups.
And this is because in small groups there are fewer ideas, there are fewer innovations.
And small groups are more prone to accidents and bad luck.
If you look at our ancestors, the Neanderthals and the Homo erectus, our immediate ancestors, they're confined to small regions of the world.
So we can see these small yet detectable voltage fluctuations over time.
These might be small, little trips that we take away, private thoughts that we have.
We're going to have to re-learn what the building blocks of these things are: the street, the block, how to compose public space that's both large and small, the courtyard, the civic square and how to really make use of this property.
Women have two copies of that big X chromosome; men have the X and, of course, that small copy of the Y. Sorry boys, but it's just a tiny little thing that makes you different.
The financial crisis is really a relatively small historic phenomenon, which has just accelerated this huge shift, which ends half a millennium of Western ascendancy.
If the suppression index is very, very, very small, then you very well might be being suppressed.
[The] Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.
Now there's only a small part of the population, which remains unaffected.
You notice that the coat she's carrying is too small for the child who is with her, and therefore, she started out the journey with two children, but dropped one off along the way.
And indeed, the head of the Chambers of Commerce is now the chairman of the Studio Schools Trust and helping it, not just with big businesses, but small businesses all over the country.
A funnel plot is a very clever way of spotting if small negative trials have disappeared, have gone missing in action.
If there is publication bias, if small negative trials have gone missing in action, you can see it on one of these graphs.
So you see here that the small negative trials that should be on the bottom left have disappeared.
They cut it into small sticks and wrapped it in string or sheepskin or paper and sold it on the streets of London to be used for writing or for drawing or, a lot of times, by farmers and shepherds, who used it to mark their animals.
But small stairs can have a huge impact, too.
Except, if you look a little bit closer, you see, in fact, that this thing is way too small to be anything like that.
Secondly, our new mantra: small is sexy.
Most of us, maybe all of us, are here pretty happily for a bunch of days with a couple of bags, maybe a small space, a hotel room.
There's a great story of his friend William Kent, who recognized there was a small patch of redwoods left on the base of Mount Tam, and so he quickly bought the land and donated it to this National Parks effort.
They bring them below those roofs into small workshops like these, and people try very hard to separate the plastics, by color, by shape, by feel, by any technique they can.
It starts with metal recyclers who shred our stuff into very small bits.
We grind the plastic down to about the size of your small fingernail.
We push that material to extruders where we melt it, push it through small die holes, make spaghetti-like plastic strands.
And I remember at the beginning of my career, again and again, on these dismal outings with orchestras, I would be going completely insane on the podium, trying to engender a small scale crescendo really, just a little upsurge in volume.
And how futile seemed the words of advice to me from great British veteran conductor Sir Colin Davis who said, "Conducting, Charles, is like holding a small bird in your hand.
And I think, in no small way, that's due to one fundamental fact: they're not bound to a system of notation.
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