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Without these most prepotent needs met, people do not even get an opportunity for further growth as a human.

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An apparently blended character or a prepotent character may on analysis turn out to be due to the inheritance of a certain proportion of minuter characters derived exclusively from either parent.

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If a father is prepotent, he may have a greater effect in producing the formed child than the mother has, and vice versa, as when a son closely resembles his father or his mother.

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Such Dominants are a bi-sexual species in which the male is prepotent.

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And, of course, the more primitive a type is, the more prepotent it is.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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