Modified

Examples

• He infers that many species have kept true for long periods, whereas a few have become modified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In this case, his original impulse is modified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Agricultural methods also have been modified by the compression pump. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Human actions are modified in a like fashion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This type of two-wheeler, however, finds favor among those who like power and speed but in modified form. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hypothesis is confirmed and modified by action, and action is guided by hypothesis. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Hence the reproductive system of this one variety must have been in some manner and in some degree modified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let us take a group of birds, descended from some ancient form and modified through natural selection for different habits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Such parts, whether more or less modified, unless their common origin became wholly obscured, would be serially homologous. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• To whom I imparted how my uncle had come in the night and was then asleep, and how the breakfast preparations were to be modified accordingly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In 1914 it was modified so that it injures nothing with which it comes in contact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It requires that methods of instruction and administration be modified to allow and to secure direct and continuous occupations with things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In every machine the primary state of material has been modified by subordinating it to use for a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In the illustration, which shows a slightly modified form, a cruciform rod of zinc within a porous cup is surrounded by a copper cell, the whole being enclosed within a glass jar. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Otherwise it is modified, and another trial made. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It studies the more easily modified instinct of birds, and not es their ability to make intelligent choice on the basis of experience. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent their breeds of cattle and sheep. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But there is no necessity for supposing that all the parts of any being have been simultaneously modified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I candidly own that I have modified my views a little, in deference to you; and it should satisfy you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We now see, as I believe, their descendants, mostly in a modified condition, in the central parts of Europe and the United States. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• For they have aims in common, and the activity of each member is directly modified by knowledge of what others are doing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• These instruments have been modified and improved by Brequet and Froment of France, Dr. Siemens and Kramer, and Siemens and Halske of Germany, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus the young will not be modified, or will be modified only in a slight degree, through the effects of the increased use or disuse of parts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how largely and how permanently the minds of our domestic animals have been modified. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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