prepotency

• Man is a perpetually wanting animal; the appearance of a need rests on prior situations, on other prepotent needs; needs or desires must be arranged in hierarchies of prepotency. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• Unless he is a person of extraordinary mental prepotency, she will almost insensibly determine the character of the home in a direction quite other than that of our first sketch. —  Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
• One is prepotency, the other is inbreeding. —  The Dollar Hen
• Thus, we necessarily select the only trait really worth while; that is prepotency or the ability to beget desirable qualities The application of this centgenitor system necessitates inbreeding; it also necessitates large operations. —  The Dollar Hen
• We should bear in mind that pollen must be carried by the bees from flower to flower on the same large branching stem much more abundantly than from plant to plant; and in the case of plants the flowers of which are in some degree dichogamous, those on the same stem would be of different ages, and would thus be as ready for mutual fertilisation as the flowers on distinct plants, were it not for the prepotency of pollen from another variety. —  Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

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