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Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primæval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Born:
February 16, 1834
Died:
August 9, 1919
(aged 85)
Known for:
Creatures of the Deep: The Pop-Up Book
The Riddle of the Universe
Freedom in Science and Teaching
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