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Examples
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In the symmetry of the dividing cell the basis of that resemblance which we call Heredity is contained '.
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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But whether goats or humans, don't you think the great lesson of Heredity is that Blood will Tell?
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The modern media tangle about genes, race, and IQ began when in 1869 the British scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) published a book called Heredity Genius.
Dan Agin: Black and White in America II: The Phantom of Group Differences 2009
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In Sociology in my day, we read a book by Theodore Dobzhansky with LC Dunn called Heredity, Race, and Society, published by the great New American Library in 1946.
Time Waits for No Man The Daily Growler 2006
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This law is known as Heredity, and its first written record is in the first chapter of Genesis, where it is written that "Every plant and animal shall bring forth after its kind."
What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874
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"Heredity," as the department now stands in our lines of work, is a scientific subject, and should be studied as such.
Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier
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J. Arthur Thomson in his work on "Heredity" presents the following compact and illuminating statement of isolation as a factor in inheritance.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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He tossed over a copy of the paper folded to a column wherein Mr. Pierce, with more temper than tact, had possessed himself of his adversary's editorial text, "Heredity," and proceeded to perform a variant thereon.
The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Had his employer better comprehended, in those early days, the Ellisonian philosophy, perhaps the "Heredity" editorial might never have appeared.
The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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I've always taken a good deal of stock in what you call "Blood-will-tell" if you're a Methodist, or "Heredity" if you're a Unitarian; and I don't want you to come along at this late day and disturb my religious beliefs.
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