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Because sometimes we think bloggers, particularly those on the built environment, are a monstrous sub-breed of humanity: preening, humorless, fringe feeding, attention whoring polemicist and apologists who take too many things too seriously too many times.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Because sometimes we think bloggers, particularly those on the built environment, are a monstrous sub-breed of humanity: preening, humorless, fringe feeding, attention whoring polemicist and apologists who take too many things too seriously too many times.
Bloggers with a Twin Conjoined at the Belly, Standing in the Landscape 2009
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There is a sub-breed of doctors and all too common "historical investigators" conspiracy nuts that regularly pop up in the media proposing we did up the remains of this or that famous politician or celebrity because they could have died of nefarious means or some exotic disease that - Would Change Our Understanding of History!
Was Lincoln already dying of cancer when he was assassinated? Ann Althouse 2007
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In semi-civilised countries, with little free communication, the spreading of a new sub-breed would be a slow process.
I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection 1909
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AT the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub-breed, superior to anything of the kind in the country.
I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection 1909
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Even in the same sub-breed, as in that of the short-faced tumbler, it is notoriously difficult to breed nearly perfect birds, many departing widely from the standard.
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Several eminent breeders, during a single lifetime, have so largely modified some of the higher animals which propagate their kind much more slowly than most of the lower animals, that they have formed what well deserves to be called a new sub-breed.
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At the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub-breed, superior to anything existing in the country.
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In semi-civilised countries, with little free communication, the spreading and knowledge of any new sub-breed will be a slow process.
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At the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub-breed, superior to anything existing in the country.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 01 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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