In other words, the Modern Synthesis simply abstracts away from the role of phenotypic variation. It explains evolutionary change solely in terms of genetic variation.

In the greater proportion of cases hydroperitoneum causes no difficulty.

Hockin was emerging as a principal target-villain in the case, a traitor to his union yet a key figure in the dynamitings.

PLATE XXVII.—Details of the Paddle Wheel of the Steamboat North America. Fig. 1, shows the outside framing of the paddle-box, or as it is frequently termed, the wheel-house; also an elevation of the paddle-wheel, shewing the arrangement of the buckets, arms, centre-plate, &c.