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  • Charles Darwin. Remember him? That big book from the library. The Origin of the Species.   (source)
  • It also said that an average of seventy-four species of insects, plants, and animals become extinct every day.   (source)
  • the fishermen called all the fish of that species tuna and only distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them   (source)
  • I know little about your lives, but the pattern scarcely varies wherever a pocket of the older species is trying to preserve itself.   (source)
  • when ... we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species.   (source)
    species = a similar group of animals
  • He doesn't belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself.   (source)
    species = a similar group of animals or plants
  • ...and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?   (source)
  • Remedies are very various, very uncertain, and differ with the species inflicting the bite.   (source)
  • Instead, the jabberjays mated with female mockingbirds creating a whole new species that could replicate both bird whistles and human melodies.†   (source)
  • There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.†   (source)
  • Parzival: The female of the species has always found me repellent.†   (source)
  • Something about him said government—a species Dad had trained us to avoid.†   (source)
  • The sharks, which Louie thought were of the mako and reef species, were so close that the men would only have to extend their hands to touch them.†   (source)
  • As a species, we have evolved to survive.†   (source)
  • You, the canine species, and our society would be better served if you accepted the realities of animal husbandry.†   (source)
  • Besides turtles, can you think of any other endangered species that we could cut up and fry?†   (source)
  • Indeed, Pan-Species Communism is a natural continuation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.†   (source)
  • DID YOU KNOW that we're the only animals with three species of lice?†   (source)
  • With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.†   (source)
  • Your species is clogging up the world so fast ...ah, never mind.†   (source)
  • We recently sent him Darwin's The Origin of Species, which he hopes will help him better understand those around him.†   (source)
  • Long-legged and blond, with pale caramel skin, she was the kind of woman who makes me wonder if all humans really are the same species.†   (source)
  • His collection included mastodon bones, fossils, minerals, and preserved animals such as jackals, mongooses, and bison, along with dozen of species of amphibians, birds, fish, and insects.†   (source)
  • Rosa rugosa, one of the oldest species of rose, had five petals and pentagonal symmetry, just like the guiding star of Venus, giving the Rose strong iconographic ties to womanhood.†   (source)
  • The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure.†   (source)
  • Mrs. V, as promised, writes down names of species and takes pictures so I can remember when we get back home.†   (source)
  • He'd read all their books dozens of times, even the ones with titles like Diseases of the Porcine Species and Common Grasses of Our Countryside.†   (source)
  • Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette.†   (source)
  • Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.†   (source)
  • It's about the amount of soil you'd put in a window box, and the only seeds I have are a few species of grass and ferns.†   (source)
  • Interaction between the male species and the female species was varied and intense and highly unpredictable.†   (source)
  • Brandon looked at it like it was an invasive species.†   (source)
  • Kevin exclaimed, "Like another species!"†   (source)
  • Whenever she came into the cafeteria, Josie felt like a naturalist observing different species in their natural, nonacademic habitat.†   (source)
  • The couple cruised the neighborhood with the air of an entirely novel species—as if they were the first couple in New Hampshire to have given birth.†   (source)
  • Because it is a new species, there's no way I can prove I discovered it.†   (source)
  • In her most recent adventure, she is closing in on a giant kangaroo—an extinct species, incidentally, the size of a bounding bison—she can taste the meat.†   (source)
  • "The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect," she began.†   (source)
  • Oh, sure, he has reached the age of twenty-one, when we, civilized men, consider the male species has reached manhood, but would you call this—this—this a man?†   (source)
  • An undiscovered species?†   (source)
  • We would often sit by the tanks while Mom told us about the different species of fish.†   (source)
  • Crake's model had been the canids and the mustelids, and a couple of other families and species as well.†   (source)
  • The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi's moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.†   (source)
  • There are thousands of species of bird on every continent.†   (source)
  • The Damogran Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but wanted no truck with it.†   (source)
  • If you were an alien who came to Earth to study its life-forms, you wouldn't even think the two of them were the same species.†   (source)
  • A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war.†   (source)
  • Nom et pronom, species and phylum.†   (source)
  • In fact, the scores on those four dimensions are so different as to make you think you are looking at two different species of humans.†   (source)
  • I felt like some mysterious foreign species he was observing and trying to figure out.†   (source)
  • Everywhere we looked as we approached the hogback ridge that marked the terminus of the forest, we could see seedpods and cones burst open with new life for the various fire species that had died in the conflagration of the previous two nights.†   (source)
  • I'm pretty positive we'll find it no surprise that Texas isn't the only state inhabited by the male species.†   (source)
  • Couldn't we have evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey?†   (source)
  • It's one of the truly universal things about our species.†   (source)
  • In the interest of good taste, I'll request that you limit yourself to members of the same species and for clarity that you limit yourself to a mere pair of participants, but aside from that, no restrictions.†   (source)
  • She is said to be much loved by the natives even though she thinks they are an entirely different species from what she calls Europeans.†   (source)
  • Killing the Insignificant is nothing, to the Presger, and violence between members of the same species means nothing to them, but indiscriminate violence toward other Significant species is unacceptable.†   (source)
  • They were among the first in their field to discover the existence of the new species of small hominids that were now commonly called Hobbits in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • A Species Apart.†   (source)
  • I kept stealing glances at him across a plate of antelope meat and stale Potato Buds, which I guess just goes to show you how unaccustomed to the male species I have become.†   (source)
  • They quickly found that of ten cell lines thought to be from nine different species—including dog, pig, and duck—all but one were actually from primates.†   (source)
  • Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect.†   (source)
  • One night they came home with money that wasn't theirs, and Big Tony found out and tried to explain to them a little bit about white people and how, lacking street smarts, they had established some rules to preserve their species and that, odd as those rules might seem, Steven and Michael needed to obey them.†   (source)
  • My boyfriend was worse than clue-less-in fact, I ditched him on the spot, because it made me realize what an alien the guy was-like many members of your species.†   (source)
  • He supposed a man who had just cut his hand off in a power saw might feel this same species of nothing as he stood regarding his spouting wrist with dull surprise.†   (source)
  • So Mr. Brown explained that they would have to be sprayed with one of his special products, which would make the males of the species sterile.†   (source)
  • I had the ability to study the markings on a fish, for instance, and from then on I could identify that species.†   (source)
  • They also brought in an anaconda, four meters long, whose insomniac hunter's sighs disturbed the darkness in the bedrooms although it accomplished what they had wanted, which was to frighten with its mortal breath the bats and salamanders and countless species of harmful insects that invaded the house during the rainy months.†   (source)
  • He traced the ants underground into their complex matrix of warrens and studied how they cared for a certain member of their species that was several times bigger than a normal ant.†   (source)
  • The fertility drive of the species had overpowered them.†   (source)
  • And when the time was right for another pet, an animal she inevitably would wind up feeding and cleaning, she preferred that it be a different species, a little dog.†   (source)
  • The complexity of human attraction—and reproduction—is one of the features that set us apart from other species.†   (source)
  • A great echoing din, as of the extinction of a species of beast, filled the vast space.†   (source)
  • When I was in fifth grade, I spent more time with horses than with members of my own species.†   (source)
  • In his room, there were twelve critters; with the exception of a second stuffed bear, representatives of the entire zoological species of North Carolina would be keeping him company.†   (source)
  • Without receiving a fraction of the public attention given to the northwestern spotted owl, America's independent cattlemen have truly become an endangered species.†   (source)
  • There are constables at the doors—"to prevent further propagation of the species," it said in the newspaper.†   (source)
  • The passengers looked out the windows at the place where the human species was born.†   (source)
  • A change of species just didn't make that much difference to us.†   (source)
  • He looked at us like we were an alien species.†   (source)
  • So Lorraine found herself, on her knees, surrounded by the most dangerous species in existence—human males with an erection to validate in a world that was only six feet wide.†   (source)
  • Still, of everyone in all the world, this was the person to whom he was closest at that moment, for they at least were of the same species, brothers in the breed of Cain; separated from him, Perry felt "all by myself.†   (source)
  • That in our DNA is stored genetic memories of when we were an evolving species and when you take the stuff the Indians of Brazil take you'll access your genetic library all the way back to cellular experience.†   (source)
  • In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.†   (source)
  • "There's more than a million species of insect and only one species of human being," the man said.†   (source)
  • I was an animal—not quite wolf or bear or gorilla or dog, but some horrible species that walked upright, that was almost human, yet not.†   (source)
  • Nor have I any doubt, that as far as their power extends, they will inflict every species of calamity upon us.†   (source)
  • St. Clair is a different kind of attractive, a different species altogether.†   (source)
  • As a species, we were an abomination.†   (source)
  • I count about forty different species.†   (source)
  • I might have been some odd species of beetle.†   (source)
  • A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature's life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species.†   (source)
  • Couldn't ghosts be an entirely different species of creature?†   (source)
  • History of Fashion SENIOR THESIS BY ELIZABETH NICHOLS Man, truly the animal that talks, is the only one that needs conversations to propagate its species...In love, conversations play an almost greater role than anything else.†   (source)
  • She listened intently at his ears and lifted each of his legs in turn, watching the twitching as closely as if she was observing a new species of wild animal.†   (source)
  • The fact is that another species—an intelligent, very powerful species—has taken control of this world.†   (source)
  • It was journalistic work of the type that should be on the endangered species list.†   (source)
  • Especially between species.†   (source)
  • Some were "enhanced" but not combined with another species.†   (source)
  • I bet your lab tech told you it was some form of a valarian—southwest U.S. native species.†   (source)
  • The lowland Pakistanis who had come to negotiate with them spoke Urdu, and looked like a different species, girlishly trim, with neat blue berets and ammunition belts cinched tightly about their tiny waists.†   (source)
  • They didn't look like any species he recognized, but then again, the only Earth botany book he'd been able to find had been about plants native to Africa, and he thought he'd heard Wells say they were on the East Coast of what had once been the United States.†   (source)
  • Usually they'd read the plaque that was nailed to its trunk: "Sassafras: family Lauraceae, genus Sassafras, species S. albidum.†   (source)
  • The overall name of these interrelated structures, the genus of which the hierarchy of containment and structure of causation are just species, is system.†   (source)
  • Drays, express wagons, trucks, and conveyances of every conceivable species and size crowded across in indiscriminate haste.†   (source)
  • The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species.†   (source)
  • Certain species can be quite deadly.†   (source)
  • Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete.†   (source)
  • Nicolo asked, with noticeable discomfort, for he had never been to school, and he thought of teachers as a dangerous species of male nun.†   (source)
  • There, he thought, was the most contemptible representative of the species.†   (source)
  • He sees his species not with the inhuman idea of a natural enemy, but as kindred ...It is the pursuit of this truth that appears to be the common tenor of all the voices you hear in this new volume.†   (source)
  • Survival of the species, which is us.†   (source)
  • And of course it is a far-distant threat; evolution works so slowly, even on Terra, that the development of a new species is a matter of many, many thousands of years.†   (source)
  • The origin of this basic living matter, he thought, was most likely an accident of chemistry—and the origin of all species was explained through evolution.†   (source)
  • My ancestor, William Charles Ondaatje, knew of at least fifty-five species of poisons easily available to his countrymen, none of it, it seems, used against the invaders.†   (source)
  • I loved the challenge of going into an entirely different market and learning everything there is to know about hunting a different species, so Buck Commander was born in 2006.†   (source)
  • The female of the species performs her mating dance.†   (source)
  • The great roar was composed of a thousand different rips and whispers, most incredible noise he had ever heard or imagined, like a great orchestra of death, all the sounds of myriad death: the whicker-whicker of certain shells, the weird thin scream of others, the truly frightful sound made by one strange species that came every few moments, an indescribable keening, like old Death as a woman gone mad and a-hunting you, screaming, that would be the Whitworth, new English cannon the Rebs had.†   (source)
  • I think they're the best eating species of all the freshwater commercial fish in Louisiana.†   (source)
  • The boundaries between the various genuses and species in nature are another example of the same truth.†   (source)
  • "There is a real philosophical question whether there can be hostile species at the level to be able to use interstellar travel," the director said.†   (source)
  • Liv Crawford could speak to these elements and others, and then point out the work invested in the grounds, the mature and various species of tree and shrub, the well-chosen perennials and annuals and judicious use of ornamental stones, the scale and shape and proportion of the entire site a realty dream come true, so that all one need do is simply move right in.†   (source)
  • Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species.†   (source)
  • A lieutenant in the 28th Mississippi told his wife in 1863 that "this country without slave labor would be completely worthless....If the negroes are freed the country ...is not worth fighting for....We can only live & exist by that species of labor: and hence I am willing to continue to fight to the last."†   (source)
  • They say we're the only species on the planet with the knowledge of our own impending doom.†   (source)
  • As yet, she had stumbled upon no example of the species worth marrying.†   (source)
  • With the forests gone, every living thing would end up on the endangered species list, including people.†   (source)
  • But Bentley Durrell was not only a general, he was a sublime prototype of the species.†   (source)
  • Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.†   (source)
  • As to establishing contact with the study species — this seemed out of the question at the moment, unless the wolves themselves decided to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • I did that which had to be done, to preserve my own species.†   (source)
  • What I was aware of, as my wild laughter sprang forth, was that it was a species of genius—and this was something I would wait another twenty years to witness, in the incandescent figuration of Lenny Bruce.†   (source)
  • In my mind's eye The Origin of Species is lying on the shelf in the pantry under a light dusting of flour—my mother was a bread maker; she'd pick it up, sit by the kitchen window and find her place, with one eye on the oven.†   (source)
  • I opened it up, and read my sophomore science class Chapter 17, Darwin's Origin of Species.†   (source)
  • But granting the innate imperfection of the species, some cultural premises are better than others.†   (source)
  • But the human race being what it is, it just won't be bossed around by creatures of the same species.†   (source)
  • I think them all varieties in a peculiar species of our race exhibiting a combination of talents and good moral character with passions and prejudices calculated to defeat their own objects and embarrass their friends.†   (source)
  • "Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing.†   (source)
  • Malcolm said, "Can you tell the species?"†   (source)
  • The embryos were arranged by species: Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.†   (source)
  • "Obviously we can't verify the species," Stone said.†   (source)
  • But along with the excitement of a new species was the worrisome possibility of new diseases.†   (source)
  • Many other large species have associated creatures that have evolved to eat their excrement.†   (source)
  • "We now have fifteen species of extinct animals, and most of them are dangerous," Arnold said.†   (source)
  • Only a few percent of the nucleotides differ from one species to the next.†   (source)
  • At one time, I thought I had more than twenty species.†   (source)
  • He was going to have to check all fifteen species.†   (source)
  • So a new species was perfectly possible.†   (source)
  • That's for all fifteen species, you remember.†   (source)
  • Suppose I suspect that some of them aren't really the correct species.†   (source)
  • Two hundred and thirty-eight...How many species?†   (source)
  • More than five thousand species of insects.†   (source)
  • "And is one of the fifteen species a—" Malcolm turned to Grant.†   (source)
  • With John Horner, Grant had been the first to describe the species.†   (source)
  • How many different species have you made so far?†   (source)
  • More than a thousand species of orchids.†   (source)
  • We have literally dozens of species on the island.†   (source)
  • Of those species, only four were found in Latin America.†   (source)
  • Of course, motion sensors won't usually tell you the species, but we get image recognition direct off the video.†   (source)
  • He explained that, of the six thousand species of lizards in the world, no more than a dozen species walked upright.†   (source)
  • In order to make a complete strand, were you ever required to include DNA fragments from other species?†   (source)
  • Classically, the ability to invent and execute plans was believed to be limited to only three species: chimpanzees, gorillas, and human beings.†   (source)
  • New species were being discovered all the time at a pace that had increased in recent years, for a sad reason.†   (source)
  • "Or maybe it's just ritual behavior," she said, "species-specific behavior that serves to identify them to one another.†   (source)
  • DNA was such a large molecule that each species required ten gigabytes of optical disk space to store details of all the iterations.†   (source)
  • They have a question about identification of the species, and a concern about diseases transmitted from the bite.†   (source)
  • Such a new and distinctive pattern led Guitierrez to suspect the presence of a previously unknown species of lizard.†   (source)
  • Not that he was afraid; all the species of duckbilled dinosaurs were herbivorous, and this one acted exactly like a cow.†   (source)
  • This was because it was believed that no species could ever become extinct, since God would not allow one of His creations to die.†   (source)
  • Costa Rica was becoming deforested, and as jungle species lost their habitats, they moved to other areas, and sometimes changed behavior as well.†   (source)
  • Fifteen species, frozen embryos.†   (source)
  • Sex organs vary with the species.†   (source)
  • But such cross-reactivity was common among reptile species, and Dr. Stone did not think it noteworthy to include in the fax his technician sent to Dr. Martin Guitierrez that same evening.†   (source)
  • Fifteen different species, Donald.†   (source)
  • When the first giant bones were found in the 1820s and 1830s, scientists felt obliged to explain the bones as belonging to some oversize variant of a modern species.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he felt his original views were correct: that a lizard species had been driven from the forest into a new habitat, and was coming into contact with village people.†   (source)
  • Grant had finally put that one to rest, by demonstrating that many species of birds and reptiles underwent a postmortem contraction of posterior neck ligaments, which bent the head backward in a characteristic way.†   (source)
  • Fifteen species.†   (source)
  • "This pod houses over twenty thousand species," the chubby girl was saying.†   (source)
  • Jane felt like she did at the Central Park Menagerie, watching completely different species.†   (source)
  • Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?†   (source)
  • I think the best place to start would be to look within your own species.†   (source)
  • My recent encounter with Fenris hadn't done anything to increase my appreciation for the species.†   (source)
  • I thought it meant that our species were almost completely different.†   (source)
  • We are a fractured and frantic species ....moving down a path of destruction.†   (source)
  • If you did, you'd know that Wookiee was not a language, it was a species.†   (source)
  • They have a new species here too: people with antennas coming out of their heads.†   (source)
  • This latest attacker would be afforded the same respect as another male of the species.†   (source)
  • If I want to change shape, or age, or gender, or species, I simply wish it to happen and—ka-bam!†   (source)
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