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But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much -- and this may be the most disturbing thing about it -- a child of its time.— California Chronicle
But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much - and this may be the most disturbing thing about it - a child of its time.— California Chronicle
The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy It is a pure myth.— Applied Eugenics
In such a case as the one quoted, the explanation is undoubtedly that the supposed father is not the real one; and this explanation will dispose of all other cases of telegony which can not be explained, as in most instances they can be, by the mixed ancestry of the offspring and the innate tendency of all living things to vary Now to sum up this long chapter.— Applied Eugenics
In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society,— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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