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Josef and Karel Capek, The Life of the Insects Chapter 2 With so many kinds of
flies in nature's burgeoning storehouse of life, how does one choose a proper
species for study? The answer is simple. Let the species choose you. This was
how ...
Josef and Karel Capek, The Life of the Insects Chapter 2 With so many kinds of
flies in nature's burgeoning storehouse of life, how does one choose a proper
species for study? The answer is simple. Let the species choose you. This was
how ...
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The leakiest part of an animal is most obvious to anyone who is concerned with
sanitary problems in the young of the human species. Less obvious is the fact
that the opposite end also loses water. The only advantage of which I am aware
of ...
The leakiest part of an animal is most obvious to anyone who is concerned with
sanitary problems in the young of the human species. Less obvious is the fact
that the opposite end also loses water. The only advantage of which I am aware
of ...
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Here is an example of survival of the individual being subordinated to survival of
the species. In some quarters it would be hailed as maternal instinct, and by so
naming it we would be no nearer an understanding of what it is. So Mr. Daddy ...
Here is an example of survival of the individual being subordinated to survival of
the species. In some quarters it would be hailed as maternal instinct, and by so
naming it we would be no nearer an understanding of what it is. So Mr. Daddy ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | To know a fly |
| Author | Vincent Gaston Dethier |
| Publisher | Holden-Day, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2010 |
| Length | 119 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biological research Biology Flies Insects Nature / Insects & Spiders Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology |
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