The Wonders of Life a Popular Study of Biological Philosophy
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They differ from the ccenobia of the protists in that the social cells give up their independence, assume different forms in the divi- sion of labor, and subordinate themselves to the higher unity of the organ. However, it would be just as diffi- cult to lay down a sharp limit between the ccenobia and the tissues as between the protists and the histona which possess them; the latter have been developed phylo- genetically from the former. The original physiological independence of the cells whic...h have combined to form « 161 THE WONDERS OP LIFE phologically to real nucleated cells. By means of adap- tation to the most varied conditions and the inheritance of the properties thus acquired such a variety of uni- cellular forms has been evolved in the course of millions of years that we can distinguish thousands of living species, both of plasmodomous protophyta and plas- mophagous protozoa. The number of known and named species is already as high as this in several dis- tinct classes, as, for instance, in the diatomes of the primitive plants and the radiolaria of the primitive ani- mals.
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