progeny

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Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

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A progeny of learning. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. Dr. Seuss

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that. Vanna Bonta

We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies. Vanna Bonta

I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. Charles Darwin

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny. Jack London

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