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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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Benzer and Hirsch 's competing philosophies developed behavioral genetics , and helped it become a legitimate area of study in the scientific community .
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Benzer and Hirsch 's competing philosophies served to provide necessary scientific tension in order to accelerate and enhance developments in behavioral genetics , helping it gain traction as a legitimate area of study in the scientific community .

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Marginal utility is a concept from economics that describes the change in utility from consuming more or less of a good or service .
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In economics , utility is the satisfaction or benefit derived by consuming a product ; thus the marginal utility of a goods or service is the change in the utility from an increase in the consumption of that good or service .

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Natural Language Processing ( NLP ) is a field in Artificial Intelligence , and is also related to linguistics .
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Natural language processing ( NLP ) is a subfield of linguistics , computer science , information engineering , and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages , in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data .