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Expansions is the tenth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his fourth released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in August 1968 and features performances by Tyner with Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits.
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If the brain is to interpret images arriving at the retina of the eye, these pathways, with their compressions and expansions, have to be organized in an orderly manner - and indeed it can be shown that there is a precise topographic mapping of the retina onto the neurons of the lateral geniculate and a further mapping of these cells onto those of the visual cortex.
Of course it will be understood that mere expansions do not destroy the essential character of the arrangements.
Maritime technology coupled with political organization was similarly essential for European expansions to other continents, as well as for expansions of many other peoples.
Long before anyone began manufacturing guns and steel, others of those same factors had led to the expansions of some non-European peoples, as we shall see in later chapters.
Of these, writing was traditionally the one most restricted geographically: until the expansions of Islam and of colonial Europeans, it was absent from Australia, Pacific islands, subequatorial Africa, and the whole New World except for a small part of Mesoamerica.
First, we can reverse the historically known linguistic expansions of recent millennia.
The historical southward expansions of Burmese, Laotians, and Thais from South China completed the Sinification of tropical Southeast Asia.
Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers.
We already discussed such historical expansions in Chapters 16 and 17 for the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and other East Asian language families.
Among major expansions of the last millennium are those that carried Indo-European languages from Europe to the Americas and Australia, the Russian language from eastern Europe across Siberia, and Turkish (a language of the Altaic family) from Central Asia westward to Turkey.
Southwest, the Americas lack examples of large-scale language expansions widely accepted by linguists.
Some of Greenberg's subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production.
One or two small lake expansions were passed, but generally there was a steady current and a good depth of water.
The river valley gradually becomes more narrow and the current stronger and with the exception of a few small expansions, progress is only possible by means of tracking.
She could feel her heart beating, feel the slow, rhythmic expansions of her rib cage as she breathed.