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... bodies a slightly prominent tumour , transmitted from father to son , which warned them of changes in the weather , and which grew larger whenever a moist wind was coming . The resemblance may be so close as to give rise to doubts ...
... bodies a slightly prominent tumour , transmitted from father to son , which warned them of changes in the weather , and which grew larger whenever a moist wind was coming . The resemblance may be so close as to give rise to doubts ...
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... body . Thus , so truly is obesity the result of an organic predisposition , that it has often been known to make its appearance amid privations , and under all the disadvantages of hard labour and poverty . Heredity influences the ...
... body . Thus , so truly is obesity the result of an organic predisposition , that it has often been known to make its appearance amid privations , and under all the disadvantages of hard labour and poverty . Heredity influences the ...
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... of his brothers was like me . The heredity of anomalies of organization is a well - ascertained fact . One of the strangest and best known instances of this is the case of Edward Lambert , whose whole body , 6 Heredity .
... of his brothers was like me . The heredity of anomalies of organization is a well - ascertained fact . One of the strangest and best known instances of this is the case of Edward Lambert , whose whole body , 6 Heredity .
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... body , with the exception of the face , the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet , was covered with a sort of carapace of horny excrescences which rattled against each other . He was the father of six children , all of whom ...
... body , with the exception of the face , the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet , was covered with a sort of carapace of horny excrescences which rattled against each other . He was the father of six children , all of whom ...
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... bodies will come in con- tact with its organism , and will so produce a tactile sensation , which will be followed ... bodies will be visible at a greater distance , and that smaller bodies will be visible at a less distance . In such a ...
... bodies will come in con- tact with its organism , and will so produce a tactile sensation , which will be followed ... bodies will be visible at a greater distance , and that smaller bodies will be visible at a less distance . In such a ...
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