prepotency

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As Rockefeller’s oil prepotency waned, global production flourished; in a frantically developing industrialized world, oil reserves took on strategic importance.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2013

But if there were no prepotency, the two species would blend; and this Kerner supposes must actually take place wherever two previously separated species, thus physiologically circumstanced, happen to be brought together.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by Romanes, George John

It is therefore not surprising that every one hitherto has been baffled in drawing up general rules on the subject of prepotency.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Cabbage. affected by pollen of purple bastard. prepotency of other pollen.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

When we consider latent characters, the explanation of this form of prepotency will be obvious.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles