Body-build and Its Inheritance

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88,838
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75,724
words a sentence
10.2
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, P. Le Page Renouf. More twins

Charles Benedict Davenport on the shelf

It's the only book by Charles Benedict Davenport on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Benedict Davenport's punctuation is closest to P. Le Page Renouf's.

P. Le Page Renouf's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons24.07.2
Commas64.676.6
Colons4.51.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.13.7
Words per sentence10.217.0
Dialogue1%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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