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A little lens glittered at its tip, like an eye-stalk on a crab.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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June 22, 2009 at 8:39 am iz all fun an games until sumwun loozez a eye-stalk
OMG! SLOW DOWN! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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A little lens glittered at its tip, like an eye-stalk on a crab.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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A little lens glittered at its tip, like an eye-stalk on a crab.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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A little lens glittered at its tip, like an eye-stalk on a crab.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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A little lens glittered at its tip, like an eye-stalk on a crab.
SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006
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The loss of the exposed, sensitive, and worse-than-useless eye, would be a decided gain, while the disused eye-stalk, being no particular detriment to the crab, would be but slightly affected by natural selection, though open to the cumulative effects of disuse.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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It is but fair to add that these instances of the cave-crab's eye-stalk and the closely-packed teeth are put forward by Mr. Spencer with the more immediate object of proving that there is "no concomitant variation in co-operative parts," even when "formed out of the same tissue, like the crab's eye and its peduncle" (pp. 12-14, 23, 33).
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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"One of the dome lights was smashed, but the eye-stalk was intact and the head and neck stayed in one piece as I carefully lifted it out."
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