The Birth-Time of the World And Other Scientific Essays
The Birth-Time of the World And Other Scientific Essays
Joly John
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This last fact is an illustration of a consideration which mustenter into the phenomenon which an eminent biologist speaks of asphysiological or unconscious "memory, "[1] For the development ofthe organism from the ovum is but the starting of a train ofinterdependent events of a complexity depending upon theexperience of the past. [1] Ewald Hering, quoted by Ray Lankaster, _The Advancement ofScience_, p. 283. 111 In short, we may suppose the entire development of the plant, towards meeting cert...ain groups of external conditions, physiologically knit together according as Nature tends toassociate certain groups of conditions. Thus, in the case inpoint, climatic rigour and scarcity of pollinating agency willever be associated; and in the long experience of the past themost economical physiological attitude towards both is, we maysuppose, adopted; so that the presence of one condition excitesthe apparent unconscious memory of the other. In reality theprocess of meeting the one condition involves the process anddevelopment for meeting the other.
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