implication you draw from that, that the requirerents are
greater than the supplies?
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DONALDSON:
AYRES:
Yes,
And yet we have manganese and cobalt nodules
forming somehow, which suggests a mystery.
DONALDSON:
WARREN:
Yes,
I think there's one thing you haven't
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touched on which ought to be put into the record, and that
PS you said, when you finished up at Bikini, that it was very
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fortunate that you had made prior studies because the ‘sitppers —_—
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rate of the genetic cases going on in this population was
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much higher than had been suspected and it might have been
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abktet—te the radiation later if it had not been found prior—
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Le-thet,
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change going on in these atolls is quite high?
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Is that still your concept, that normally the genetic
DONALDSON:
Again it's a relative sort of thing.
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It's like saying, "What's the yardstick of comparison with
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the Japanese situation?"
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may be great.
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we have fairly definite anchored things that we could look at,
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I would like to refer this question to Dr. Wolfe here,
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all, he was the botanist-ecologist here,
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I think we have to go back to the flora where
WARREN:
After
Well, I thought snails were particularly
demonstrating this change.
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DONALDSON:
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UPTON:
I don't know,
I suggest we break now and come back to
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this question after coffee,
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WARREN :
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(After coffee break]
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BRUES:
All right,
Lauren, you were talking about the concen-
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tration of some of these elements in particular, plants and,
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of course, you can tell this with these traces that are
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essentially cleared out of the ocean by living things?
We
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of DOE/UCLA
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The change in the biota may not or