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But nobody can take that small step but each of us, and that's what becomes cumulative.

This is a disease of the retina that can develop in patients with diabetes due to cumulative damage to blood vessels inside the eyes.

This is basically structural changes to the heart’s muscle and blood vessel tissue in response to cumulative damage, which leads to an enlarged heart.

When our ancestors in the Upper Paleolithic acquired greater access to the REM sleep state, both during sleep and during waking consciousness, it helped to fuel the onset of cumulative cultural evolutionary processes.