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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)
  • He doesn't belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with 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
  • Remedies are very various, very uncertain, and differ with the species inflicting the bite.   (source)
    species = a similar group of animals or plants
  • 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)
  • Instead, the jabberjays mated with female mockingbirds creating a whole new species that could replicate both bird whistles and human melodies.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Pan-Species Communism.†   (source)
  • "DID YOU KNOW that we're the only animals with three species of lice?"†   (source)
  • And which species of bear are we wrestling with today?†   (source)
  • Parzival: The female of the species has always found me repellent.†   (source)
  • Mrs. V, as promised, writes down names of species and takes pictures so I can remember when we get back home.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Kevin exclaimed, "Like another species!"†   (source)
  • The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure.†   (source)
  • Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.†   (source)
  • Your species is clogging up the world so fast … ah, never mind.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette.†   (source)
  • There are thousands of species of bird on every continent.†   (source)
  • Interaction between the male species and the female species was varied and intense and highly unpredictable.†   (source)
  • "As a species we're doomed by hope, then?"†   (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)
  • "The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect," she began.†   (source)
  • Because it is a new species, there's no way I can prove I discovered it.†   (source)
  • We would often sit by the tanks while Mom told us about the different species of fish.†   (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)
  • St. Clair is a different kind of attractive, a different species altogether.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Damogran Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but wanted no truck with it.†   (source)
  • As a species, we have evolved to survive.†   (source)
  • Nom et pronom, species and phylum.†   (source)
  • A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war.†   (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)
  • An undiscovered species?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Couldn't we have evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Brandon looked at it like it was an invasive species.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I felt like some mysterious foreign species he was observing and trying to figure out.†   (source)
  • A great echoing din, as of the extinction of a species of beast, filled the vast space.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect.†   (source)
  • It's one of the truly universal things about our 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)
  • 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)
  • The fertility drive of the species had overpowered them.†   (source)
  • I had the ability to study the markings on a fish, for instance, and from then on I could identify that species.†   (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)
  • As a species, we were an abomination.†   (source)
  • I count about forty different species.†   (source)
  • The complexity of human attraction—and reproduction—is one of the features that set us apart from other species.†   (source)
  • And however benevolent you might be, that would be no good thing for our species.†   (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)
  • Whenever she came into the cafeteria, Josie felt like a naturalist observing different species in their natural, nonacademic habitat.†   (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)
  • He looked at us like we were an alien species.†   (source)
  • The passengers looked out the windows at the place where the human species was born.†   (source)
  • I'd gladly make a deal with God to be a good kid versus changing school and species.†   (source)
  • When I was in fifth grade, I spent more time with horses than with members of my own species.†   (source)
  • It means that if we don't try to help them and we're not careful, the species might become extinct?'†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Drays, express wagons, trucks, and conveyances of every conceivable species and size crowded across in indiscriminate haste.†   (source)
  • "There's more than a million species of insect and only one species of human being," the man said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I'm pretty positive we'll find it no surprise that Texas isn't the only state inhabited by the male species."†   (source)
  • There are constables at the doors—"to prevent further propagation of the species," it said in the newspaper.†   (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)
  • A Species Apart.†   (source)
  • I might have been some odd species of beetle.†   (source)
  • Some were "enhanced" but not combined with another species.†   (source)
  • Which, in turn, is in service to the larger life of the species.†   (source)
  • The Presger didn't care if a species was sentient or not, conscious or not, intelligent or not.†   (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)
  • Nor have I any doubt, that as far as their power extends, they will inflict every species of calamity upon us.†   (source)
  • Certain species can be quite deadly.†   (source)
  • It was journalistic work of the type that should be on the endangered species list.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Potatoes are an entirely different species!†   (source)
  • Especially between species.†   (source)
  • There, he thought, was the most contemptible representative of the species.†   (source)
  • Usually they'd read the plaque that was nailed to its trunk: "Sassafras: family Lauraceae, genus Sassafras, species S. albidum.†   (source)
  • But Bentley Durrell was not only a general, he was a sublime prototype of the species.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We can only live & exist by that species of labor: and hence I am willing to continue to fight to the last.†   (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)
  • The boundaries between the various genuses and species in nature are another example of the same truth.†   (source)
  • I bet your lab tech told you it was some form of a valarian—southwest U.S. native species.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • As yet, she had stumbled upon no example of the species worth marrying.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • They say we're the only species on the planet with the knowledge of our own impending doom.†   (source)
  • The female of the species performs her mating dance.†   (source)
  • Survival of the species, which is us.†   (source)
  • With the forests gone, every living thing would end up on the endangered species list, including people.†   (source)
  • Couldn't ghosts be an entirely different species of creature?†   (source)
  • But the human race being what it is, it just won't be bossed around by creatures of the same species.†   (source)
  • Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.†   (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)
  • I realized I would have to start with my mother and her passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to "make something of myself."†   (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)
  • But granting the innate imperfection of the species, some cultural premises are better than others.†   (source)
  • I did that which had to be done, to preserve my own 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)
  • ...and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?   (source)
  • I think the best place to start would be to look within your own species.†   (source)
  • If you did, you'd know that Wookiee was not a language, it was a species.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was an evolutionary advantage to the species.†   (source)
  • Jane felt like she did at the Central Park Menagerie, watching completely different species.†   (source)
  • AMONG ALL THE SPECIES AND DEGREES OF SLAVERY THAT HAVE EXCITED THE ATTENTION OF MANKIND ….†   (source)
  • Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?†   (source)
  • Climbers, as a species, are simply not distinguished by an excess of Prudence.†   (source)
  • "This pod houses over twenty thousand species," the chubby girl was saying.†   (source)
  • We are a fractured and frantic species …. moving down a path of destruction.†   (source)
  • A thing that would simply kill anything in its way, regardless of species.†   (source)
  • It's got lots and lots of species," Shay said.†   (source)
  • I studied books on all the major species.†   (source)
  • "That's because they said you were using endangered species for your work!"†   (source)
  • He's seeing people as different species.†   (source)
  • At one time, I thought I had more than twenty species, But now, only fifteen.†   (source)
  • Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings.†   (source)
  • A. californica is sufficiently rare that it has been classified as an endangered species.†   (source)
  • Just another big important male of the species.†   (source)
  • I only wanted to save a species near extinction.†   (source)
  • She arranges them by species whenever she can, then by size.†   (source)
  • After some hours a member of my own species found me.†   (source)
  • To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.†   (source)
  • My dad says if it weren't for the Barons breaking the law, lots of species would have gone extinct."†   (source)
  • This is the natural language 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)
  • Even within the same species, no two individuals are exactly alike.†   (source)
  • Nathan watched us both, as if he were observing some kind of new species.†   (source)
  • He'd always announce each species by its Latin name.†   (source)
  • As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous.†   (source)
  • They have a new species here too: people with antennas coming out of their heads.†   (source)
  • Or maybe something less Star Warsy and more despicable: a traitor to his species.†   (source)
  • "Few people do, which is a real shame, because they're by far the most interesting reptile species.†   (source)
  • There are dozens of species of bacteria living in Earth soil, and they're critical to plant growth.†   (source)
  • "I guess the point I'm trying to make is that as a species we're just no good at writing obituaries.†   (source)
  • Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't a will to survive.†   (source)
  • Whether it's a species-jumping mutation or a deliberate fabrication is anybody's guess.†   (source)
  • The image of a new species popped into my head: the rare seafaring green orang-utan.†   (source)
  • Humans have surely invested more than forty-five billion dollars in saving species near extinction.†   (source)
  • Then he asks, "Can you tell me what species of monkey it was?"†   (source)
  • This was the second theory which he proposed in The Origin of Species.†   (source)
  • Malcolm said, "Can you tell the species?"†   (source)
  • Thought you might be a Silencer or maybe a traitor to your species or something along those lines.†   (source)
  • Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees.†   (source)
  • And in many alkaloid-producing species, moreover, the toxin is strictly localized within the plant.†   (source)
  • This latest attacker would be afforded the same respect as another male of the species.†   (source)
  • We are ordering the evolution of the species.†   (source)
  • I began looking at field guides to help me identify all the different unfamiliar species.†   (source)
  • I wonder if this was a species of moral envy.†   (source)
  • Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the end of a species was taking place before his very eyes.†   (source)
  • He didn't carelessly confuse one species with another.†   (source)
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