The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin And Transformations of Lower Organisms
The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin And Transformations of Lower Organisms
H Charlton Bastian
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The influence of internal tendencies, he says, is displayed by the fact that in a comparatively defined theatre * the various polypes of the coral reef display their diversities of colour, size, shape, and structure, independently of outward influences.* He says that, * of the i ao kinds of coral enumerated by Ehrenberg in the Red Sea, 100 at least exist under the same conditions.' (' Anatomy of the Vertebrates,' vol. iii. p. 808.) On the other hand, the polypes of a coral reef must remain esse...ntially the same kinds of organisms (however subject to minor changes) during the many thousands of years in which the reef has been forming, and this fact is more in accordance with Mr. Spencer's notions than with my own, unless— as I am inclined to think — the inherent causes of change whose influence is at first manifest in producing dififerentiation, become more and more diminished in in- tensity after even a rudimentary organization has been attained. So that after a time that change of conditions, which Mr.
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