prepotency

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As Rockefeller’s oil prepotency waned, global production flourished; in a frantically developing industrialized world, oil reserves took on strategic importance.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2013

Thus, we necessarily select the only trait really worth while; that is prepotency or the ability to beget desirable qualities.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

It is remarkable that the prepotency of one species over another in transmission is quite independent, as shown by G�rtner, of the greater or less facility with which the one fertilises the other.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Moral prepotency of and physical likeness to his father.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G

The brief mention of prepotency is common to them both.

From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Darwin, Francis, Sir