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The congenital asymmetry of the peduncular tracts observed in certain cases of mental and moral perversion are not without bearing on the symptoms of those cases.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

On the other hand the peduncular parts, whose development usually keeps pace with the triumphs the intellect achieves over instinct, are somewhat less important in the bee than in the ant.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred