winglessness

This creature has its beetle ancestry written all through it, except again as with dolphins in those features that define its superficial appearance, such as its winglessness and its ant-like profile.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

This creature has its beetle ancestry written all through it, except again as with dolphins in those features that define its superficial appearance, such as its winglessness and its ant-like profile.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

As children engaged in sport, O Sanjaya, having seized a bird and cut off its wings, merrily release it, but the creature cannot achieve locomotion in consequence of its winglessness; even so have I become, like a bird shorn of its wings!

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Such exceptional winglessness in members of a winged family can only be explained by the recognition of a life-story, not merely in the individual but in the race.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Beetles, Madeira, Lamarck and C. Darwin's views of their winglessness compared, 373, 380

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

Disuse, and the winglessness of Madeira beetles, we are almost surprised to find that they are connected at all, 375

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

Thus in respect to the winglessness of the Madeira beetles he wrote: --

Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

Madeira beetles, the ways in which Lamarck and C. Darwin would treat their winglessness, 373-380

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

C. Darwin, for the winglessness of Madeira beetles, 375

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

While we are reading them we naturally make up our minds that the winglessness of the beetles will prove due either wholly, or at any rate mainly, to natural selection, and that though it would be easy to set it down to disuse, yet we must on no account do so.

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868