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
Can you doubt, after duly considering the facts of prepotency on the one hand and those of Jordan's physiological varieties on the other, that cross-infertility does arise before or during the specific differentiation?
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by Romanes, George John
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
In the same chapter I shall show that the rate at which a species or breed absorbs and obliterates another by repeated crosses, depends in chief part on prepotency in transmission.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
