Genderspeak creates confusion between parents and children of the opposite sex just as surely as it does between parents themselves. For mothers, having sons can be a mystery, just as having daughters can be a mystery for fathers.

Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.

On the island of Barro Colorado, with an area of 23 square kilometres, at least 43 species of the genus Poecilominettia co-exist, all of which are known to feed upon the same material, namely phylloplane fungi.

See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!