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they must compete in the open environrent and you must in
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Some way get your hands on them again so that all systers
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Dr. Warren’, let's see, 24 years ago, that, yes, we can do
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have to be operative, | itn other words, you must not simply
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this.
So in doing this I have very naively told
Well, I didn't realize that it would take me 24 years
FREMONT-SMITH:
afternoon and tell us what the answer is?
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DONALDSON:
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You're going to telephone tomorrow
One step of the answer.
But go ahead, Staff.
to comment,
WARREN:
You were goin
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I think this is very Significant and I
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think a great deal of credit is owed to the AEC Division of
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Medicine and Blology for continuing to support this work ove:
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the years, 20-odd years, with such a2 small yield in return o
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a few percentage of fish, that this has been maintained over
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the years and you're now in what, 26 ns generations, watch
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ought to be of interest to the geneticists here> from sou ¢
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the original exposures in 1943 or 4.
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WARREN:
Those are with trout in 1943.
Those were with trout.
Yes,
But here has heen the longest, to my
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knowledge, the longest single set of observations on one o:
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more species of fish that have been exposed to relatively
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small amounts of radiation, am I think this ought to be co:
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tinued as long as it's necessary to get the final answers};
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I agree with Lauren.
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look very spectacular and interesting and he's properly ne
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in not claiming too much too early,
He's got some initial answers which
But I think this is
Stafford Warren
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