10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTADACTYLISM»
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pentadactylism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pentadactylism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Principles of Anatomy as Seen in the Hand: With 2 Plates ...
PENTADACTYLISM. IT might seem unnecessary to make comment upon the fact
that both the human hand and foot possess five digits ; and yet this condition of
complete pentadactylism is one of great interest and some distinction.
Frederic Wood Jones, 1920
2
Atlas Of Creation - Volume 2-:
For example, in two separate scientific papers published in 1991 and 1996,
evolutionary biologist M. Coates reveals that pentadactylism emerged two
separate times, each independently of the other. According to Coates, the
pentadactyl ...
3
An Introduction to the Study of Mammals: Living and Extinct
A marked feature of these early Eutherians is the prevalency of trituberculism in
the dentition, not less noteworthy being the frequent occurrence of
pentadactylism in the feet, while many of the individual bones were devoid of the
grooves and ...
William Henry Flower, Richard Lydekker, 1891
4
The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition
To insist that bodies are just such pure social constructions, sex too being a
social construction on the basis of genetic genitalic anomalies, is in truth to insist
that something like pentadactylism is a social construct. If biologically anomalous
...
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 2011
Having noticed the property of pentadactylism, and the property of having five
appendages on the trunk in man and the animals, they, probably, also, noticed
the occurrence of the number five in the phyllotaxis of the natural flora, that ...
6
What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson's ...
All this section of the poem is right out of Ghyka (though Olson mistranscribes
Ghyka's correct "pentadactylism"): The pentadactylism (five fingers, or
corresponding bones of cartilages) general in the animal kingdom is a
manifestation of the ...
7
The Century dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the ...
... var. of pound3, n.'J In Scotland, an arched or covered entrance or passage
through a block of buildings into an open lane or close. pendactylism (pen-dak'ti-
lizm), n. [Short for pentadactylism.] Same as pentadactylism. Baeckel, Evol. of
Man, ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
... var. of pound?, n.] In Scotland, an arched or covered entrance or passage
through a block of buildings into an open lane or close. pendactylism (pen-dak'ti-
lizm), n. [Short for pentadactylism.] Same as pentadactylism. Baeekel, Evol. of
Man, ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
Evolutionist biologist William Fix describes the collapse of the evolutionist thesis
regarding pentadactylism in this way: The older text-books on evolution make
much of the idea of homology, pointing out the obvious resemblances between
the ...
... noteworthy being the frequent occurrence of pentadactylism in the feet, while
many of the individual bones were devoid of the grooves and ridges found in
those of later types. By the time that we reach the upper division of the Eocene
period ...
