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Fossils and Ancestors MacBride was an active Lamarckian and one of the last great exponents of the recapitulation theory.
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He is a great exponent of Brahms.
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Reynolds was a great exponent of the idealized portrait typical of the day.
leading
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If the leading exponents of International Stunt competition follow this practice, there has to be a good reason.
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Other great artists include: Gerry Donahue, the world's leading exponent of country rock guitar.
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The new inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometry laboratory is a leading exponent of the application of this powerful analytical technique to geological materials.
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Aside from his deeds in the fifteen-a-side game, he was a noted exponent of sevens.
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Finally we establish the so-called laws of exponents for positive integral powers.
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We could continue in this vein, since pragmatism is a rich theory of knowledge and Quine an electrifying exponent of it.