Vulgar words in On the Genesis of Species (Page 1)
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These extinct forms, as Professor Owen, remarks,[129] "differ from each other in a greater degree than do the horse, zebra, and ass," which are not only good _zoological_ species as to form, but are species _physiologically_, _i.e._ they cannot produce a race of hybrids fertile _inter se_.
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Now, in the wing of the pigeon, or any other bird, the first and fifth digits are wholly aborted; the second is rudimentary, and carries the so-called 'bastard wing;' whilst the third and fourth {182} digits are completely united and enclosed by skin, together forming the extremity of the wing.