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  • Acanthostega, too, had a flat, amphibian skull and tetrapod-like limbs; but it too departed, and even further than Ichthyostega, from what we now think of as the fivefinger standard.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Acanthostega, too, had a flat, amphibian skull and tetrapod-like limbs; but it too departed, and even further than Ichthyostega, from what we now think of as the fivefinger standard.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • From velveteens to dimities is barely a fivefinger span and hence these camelback excesses are thought to have been instigated by one or either of the causing causes of all, those rushy hollow heroines in their skirtsleeves, be she ma-gretta be she the posque.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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