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"Multicellular" Quotes from Famous Books

... subordinate to the "other-regarding" instincts. As soon as this sub-ordination is ignored in practice, regress takes the place of progress. The transit, we are told, from the unicellular to the multicellular organism cannot be explained by individualism, but implies a diminution of the competitive, an increase of the social and subordinative tendency. The argument from economics to biology and back again, is said to be nearing exposure; the "progress of the ...

— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... each cell of a multicellular organism, reproduce themselves by division or fission. Each cell originates from another cell in the following manner: the cell divides in the center as well as its nucleus, and in this way forms two cells which grow by absorbing by endosmosis (filtration) the nutritive juices which surround ...

— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... examine the behavior of the various kinds of cells of which the various multicellular ...

— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

... protoplasm arises the first organic cell. For a long time our planet was inhabited solely by such Protista or single-celled primitive creatures. From coenobia or social unions of these afterwards arose the lowest histones, multicellular ...

— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel

... of the green caterpillars with bright longitudinal stripes, numerous individuals exhibiting this useful variation must have been produced to start with. In all higher, that is, multicellular organisms, the germ-substance is the source of all transmissible variations, and this germ-plasm is not a simple substance but is made up of many primary constituents. The question can therefore be more precisely stated ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel