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As every practicing scientist and investment analyst well knows it is always a risky venture to extrapolate beyond the known data. Nature (and the economy), history tells us, is very good at throwing us curveballs, and what may seem like a sound and logical prediction can, when the correct observations are finally gathered in, be entirely wrong.
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Beech, M. (2009). An Abundance of Habitats. In: Terraforming. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09796-1_8
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