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" ... changes produced probably by the exuberance of nourishment supplied to the fetus, as in monstrous births with additional limbs; many of these enormities of shape are propagated, and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal.... "
Zoonomia, Or, The Laws of Organic Life: In Three Parts - Page 392
by Erasmus Darwin - 1803
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Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...the mixture of fpecies, as in mules ; or changes produced probably by the exuberance of nourifhmem fupplied to the fetus, as in monftrous births with additional limbs; many of thefe enormities offhapeare propagated, and continucd as a variety at leaft, if not as a new fpecies of animal. I have...
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Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...

Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 602 pages
...the mixture of fpecies a$ in mules ; or changes produced probably by the exuberance of nourifhment fupplied to the fetus, as in monftrous births with additional limbs; many £f thefe enormities of fhape are propagated, and continued as a variety at leaft, if not as a new...
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Zoonomia, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...are propagated, and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot; of poultry also with an additional claw, and with wings to their feet; and of others without rumps. Mr. Buffbn...
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Erasmus Darwin, tr. by W.S. Dallas

Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...propagated, and continued as " a variety at least, if not as a new species w of animal. I have seen a breed of cats " with an additional claw on every foot ; of " poultry also with an additional claw, and " with wings to their feet ; and of others " without rumps. Mr. Buffon...
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Erasmus Darwin

Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...propagated, and continued as " a variety at least, if not as a new species " of animal. I have seen a breed of cats " with an additional claw on every foot ; of " poultry also with an additional claw, and " with wings to their feet ; and of others " without rumps. Mr. Buffon...
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Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...are propagated and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot; of poultry also with an additional claw, and with wings to their feet; and of others without rumps. Mr. Buffou...
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Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

Alpheus Spring Packard - Biology - 1901 - 500 pages
...are propagated and continued as a variety, at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot ; of poultry also with an additional claw, and with wings to their feet, and of others without rumps. Mr. Buffon...
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The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Luck, or cunning?

Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...are propagated and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot; of poultry also with an additional claw and with wings to their feet; and of 82 others without rumps. Mr. Buffon...
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Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson

C. Leon Harris - Science - 1981 - 360 pages
...are propagated, and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. l have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot; of poultry also with an additional claw, and with wings to their feet; and of others without rumps. Mr. Buffon...
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History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. Greene

James Richard Moore - Science - 2002 - 456 pages
...are propagated, and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot; of poultry also with an additional claw, and with wings on their feet.28 Long before his grandson, Darwin perceived...
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