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[9] Fully Queened

At last a new set of Questions:

• Q1: In an address to the 1873 annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, botanist George James Allman said:

  No physical hypothesis founded on any indisputable fact has yet explained the origin of the primordial protoplasm, and, above all, of its marvellous properties, which render evolution possible — in heredity and in adaptivity, for these properties are the cause and not the effect of evolution. For the cause of this cause we have sought in vain among the physical forces which surround us, until we are at last compelled to rest upon an independent volition, a far-seeing __ __

  What were the last two words, in that quote, which are quite in the news in recent days.


• Q2: The following images are from the covers of "The Bulletin of the __ __". There is a definite link between these images. What is it? Quite figure-out-able, if youy think about it a bit. I want the basic funda. (and for extra credit: what are the two blanks, in the title?)



• Q3: For the last one of this set, a sitter. Identify the creature and the right, in the folllowing picture. What is the entire funda behind it? (If you haven't heard of the __ __ __, yet, then it's time you did).