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  2. Who Ate All the Pies? - Wikipedia

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    The chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at the club's goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke, who weighed over 300 lb (140 kg). [1] [2] In his early career he played for Blackwell Colliery, subsequently playing for Sheffield United and Chelsea FC.

  3. On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

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    On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) [3] is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It was published on 24 November 1859. [4]

  4. Tarrare - Wikipedia

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    Despite his unusual diet, Tarrare was slim and of average height. [9] At the age of 17, he weighed only about 100 pounds (45 kg; 7 st 2 lb). [1] [5] He was described as having unusually soft fair hair and an abnormally wide mouth (roughly four inches between his jaws when his mouth was fully extended), [10] in which his teeth were heavily stained [9] and on which the lips were almost invisible.

  5. Inception of Darwin's theory - Wikipedia

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    However, in a footnote he remarks on how his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Goethe and Geoffroy Saint Hilaire came to the same conclusion on the origin of species in the years 1794–95, anticipating Lamarck. [1] After his early life in a Unitarian family, Charles Darwin developed his interest in natural history.

  6. Common descent - Wikipedia

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    Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern evolutionary biology, all living beings could be descendants of a unique ancestor commonly referred to as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on Earth. [1] [2] [3] [4]

  7. The Origin of Species (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Pelevinsky Darwin, as one would expect from a natural-scientific legend, senses a non-human beginning in the beast. In Darwin's Origin of Species, a classic work, the origin of species through natural selection, or the preservation of favored breeds in the struggle for life, is represented as the consequence of a "scientific" experiment. [10] [6]

  8. Talk:Who Ate All the Pies? - Wikipedia

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    Posh Spice Takes it Up the Arse and Who ate all the pies are short notes on British soccer chants. At best merge into a single Soccer chants page. Bmills 15:42, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC) Keep. This is an important chant and should have its own article. Voyager640 15:26, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC) Delete.

  9. Michel Lotito - Wikipedia

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    Michel Lotito began eating unusual material at 9 years of age, [3] and he performed publicly beginning in 1966, around the age of 16. He had an eating disorder known as pica, which is a psychological disorder characterised by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.