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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heterocercy .
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The lecturer dwelt chiefly on the argument of Agassiz, which he summarises as follows: "Homocercal fishes have in their embryonic state heterocercal tails; therefore heterocercality is, so far, a mark of an embryonic state as compared with homocercality, and the earlier heterocercal fish are embryonic as compared with the later homocercal."
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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