mimetic
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At Manhattan's Academy of Medicine Dr. John Galloway Lynn, Dr. Kelley's friend, delivered a paper on "Mimetic smiledness as related to handedness: an indicator of basic modes of human adaptation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mimetic resemblance is a true phenomenon, but natural selection plays the part of a conservative, not of a formative agent.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall
Mimetic art as applied to Egyptian painting and sculpture was a curious misnomer.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
Mimetic resemblances are worked out with great difficulty, except in such cases as the nocturnal animals, which simply become one with their surroundings.
From The Human Side of Animals by Dixon, Royal
Mimetic: when a species mimics or resembles another or some other object in appearance; but not in structure and other characters.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Vocabulary lists containing mimetic
The Suffix -ic, Part 4
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"Hamlet's Dull Revenge" by René Girard
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