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Title: Cell intelligence; the cause of growth, heredity and instinctive actions, illustrating that the cell is a conscious, intelligent being, and, by reason thereof, plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner that man constructs houses, railroads and other structures
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Quevli, Nels
Subjects: Cells
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn., Colwell Press
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ily aquality that spells success. The size must be consideredin the light of permanent and perpetual existence on thisplanet, as well as the other features. I quote the follow-ing from the Scientific American, which is very signifi-cant : Rarely is it safe to speak of anything as ultimatein prehistoric life, but there is little doubt that theAmerican Museum now exhibits a skeleton of the largestflesh-eating animal that has ever lived. This is Tyran-nosaurus, the tyrant lizard, a dinosaur that lived duringthe close of the Cretaceous period. It was one of the verylast expressions of its race and, judged by size and struc-ture, was king of its kind. An idea of its immense sizecan be formed from measurements of the skeleton, 47feet in length, and, as mounted, 18^^ feet in height. Whenfully erect this animal would have reached a height of 20feet. Larger herb-eating dinosaurs have been found inAmerica and East Africa in older rocks of Jurassic or 142 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION
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Fig. 26.—Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex No. 5027, 47 feet long and 18.2feet high.—Scientific American. early Cretaceous age, but the flesh-eaters contemporan-eous with them were a third smaller than the presentanimal. -The Tyrannosaurus was capable of destroying any of THE LIVING STRUCTURES 143 the contemporary creatures and was easily king of theperiod and monarch of its race. Now if it is true that the cell is a builder of all livingthings, both plants and animals, we should be able tofind the same intelligent scheme for self-protection andseU-perpetuation also in plants, or what we might calltheir stationary habitations or structures; and such is thecase, for the schemes and tricks employed by plants toserve their purpose show intelligence of a high order. Itis impossible in this short chapter to go into the detailsand describe the innumerable methods used by plants tofight drought, animals, frost, heat, etc., but the followingarticle from the Literary Digest is a very good gene

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