...least, offers the only intelligible conception of heredity. Upon it is 1 See quotation at p. 256. * "It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an CKK'S way of making another egg" (Samuel Butler). founded the whole modern science of genetics, and...

...another egg."Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery, by AD Darbishire. Cassell andCo., 1911, pp. 187-8. " It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." -Life and Habit, chapter 8. And compare the idea underlying " The World of the Unborn" in Erewbon....

...built a whole philosophy of purposive evolution. The statement was current in early post-Darwinism days that "a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." It is not, of course, a question of which comes first, though that is not entirely irrelevant. The...

...Heidegger's reversal: "Language uses us." 3 Heidegger's aphorism has a homely parallel in the saying that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg: DNA reproduces creatures for the sake of more DNA, which is a form of language. If we grant the linguistic...

...useful working hypothesis, has repeated, by transposing from eggs to DNA, Samuel Butlers witticism that "a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." 109 Originally it was just a way to avoid the extreme attitude, habitual among many molecular biologists,...

...that bridges two successive genetic transmissions. This has been accurately described by the statement that "a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg" (Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, 1877). Correlation with Size The life span .can be subdivided into...

...alone. ANSWER : an egg. One of the most famous aphorisms on the egg is ,„, TT Samuel Butler's remark that a hen is only an egg's , „., „ way of making another egg. The remark has about it and Her Egg \ . B b°. that kind or perversity which suddenly torces us to...

...seat. She thought he had the smell of vomit on him. "What are we waiting for?" he said. NINE It has been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg — Samuel Butler "I'm sure it was Ella." Honora didn't sound at all sure. "What did she say?" "I didn't...

...seat. She thought he had the smell of vomit on him. "What are we waiting for?" he said. NINF It has been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of malting another egg — Samuel Butler "I'm sure it was Ella." Honora didn't sound at all sure. "What...

...familiar strange.33 For instance, most of us think of hens laying eggs. But how many of us have considered that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg? The final component in our model is intrinsic task motivation. This is the desire to work on something...