I wasn't attempting to rediscover my roots or reclaim my long discarded heritage.
After dinner, Kathy emptied my pack on my bunk, discarding what was not absolutely necessary.
Dollo's law, biological principle, formulated about 1890 by Louis Dollo, a French-born Belgian paleontologist, that evolution is not reversible; i.e., structures or functions discarded during the course of evolution do not reappear in a given line of organisms.
New worlds can be invented and discarded in the course of a single afternoon.
Charm was his perennial weapon, exercised not least on the succession of wives and lovers he enjoyed and discarded in the course of his lonely social climb.
The fact that research into embryonic stem cells will initially be conducted on cells from embryos discarded in the course of in vitro fertility treatments is irrelevant.
The main goal of Kuhn's Structure was to challenge the idea of scientific progress as cumulative, according to which what is corrected or discarded in the course of scientific advance is that which was never really scientific in the first place, and Kuhn used incommensurability as the basis of his challenge.
Years later, Eliot recollected: There were lines and fragments that were discarded in the course of the production of Murder in the Cathedral.
OBs were obtained only in those cases in which they would otherwise be sacrificed or discarded during the course of the surgery.
In both cases, the second question was discarded over the course of the development process (see Methods).
The human genome also contains six such sequences, but one has become a pseudogene, apparently on its way to also becoming discarded over the course of the 6 Mya since humans and chimpanzees parted company.
