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So, maybe just for the sake of it, I would say that the guitar I have played the most in the last ten years is probably that Taylor 914, but the guitar I have played the most in the last week is a small-bodied little guitar called a Rockbridge.
Mike Ragogna: A Special Benefit Concert : A Conversation with Dave Matthews, Grammy Bragging Rights, Plus More Mike Ragogna 2010
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So, maybe just for the sake of it, I would say that the guitar I have played the most in the last ten years is probably that Taylor 914, but the guitar I have played the most in the last week is a small-bodied little guitar called a Rockbridge.
Mike Ragogna: A Special Benefit Concert : A Conversation with Dave Matthews, Grammy Bragging Rights, Plus More Mike Ragogna 2010
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Elephant-shrews (also called sengis, order Macroscelidea) are small-bodied insectivorous mammals with a strictly African distribution.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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We use a comparative database of 39 independently derived island endemic primate species and subspecies to demonstrate that primates do conform to the island rule: small-bodied primates tend to get larger on islands, and large-bodied primates get smaller.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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**If any musician monkeys out there can clarify if "parlor" is a specific style or just a general term used to describe small-bodied guitars, please let us know in comments.
Guitar Fridays: 1921 Martin 00-28 Michael Alan Nelson 2009
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In 2003 Australian and Indonesian scientists discovered small-bodied, small-brained, hominin human-like fossils on the remote island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings 2009
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Because individuals of small-bodied species require less energy and food than individuals of larger-bodied species, a given amount of energy can support a greater number of individuals of the smaller-bodied species.
Food web 2008
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The skull is most likely that of a small-bodied modern human who suffered from microcephaly.
Science 2006
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The earliest known elasmothere, Bugtirhinus, was small-bodied and from the tropical Bugti Fauna of Pakistan, so only late, specialised elasmotheres were giant, cold-climate forms (Antoine & Welcomme 2000).
Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006
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They harbor, among important species of other groups of organisms, viable populations of a number of small-bodied endemic birds (mostly passerines) and the last populations of the red-handed howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest.
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