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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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are able to navigate the air itseems queer that they should not also understand how tooperate it. That question will be more fully discussedunder the chapter on cause of instinctive action of allkinds, which so far has seemed to be a mystery to man-kind. I can see no mystery in the instinctive acts of ani-mals or plants. The builder should know, and does knowhow to use the machinery he has put together. The livingstructures which are made by living beings, the cells, areall made for a purpose. For example, the long tongues ofwoodpeckers and humming birds with which they reachinto deep crevices and holes, the web between the toes of THE LIVING STRUCTURES 149 the swimming animals and birds, and the long neck ofthe giraffe with which he reaches up to the high branchesof the trees on which he feeds are structures that ariseout of the desires and needs of the builders. Take for in-stance hair, this is a covering mainly to keep the body atan equal temperature. In a cold climate the covering
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Fig. 29.—Bird descending. (Made by man.) must be provided either by the cells in the body or by theacts of the individual himself, as in the case of man. Thecells of a man do not make hair on the body, after havingdiscovered a better way of covering the same with theskins of animals or otherwise, which covering can be re-moved when not required. Hair is produced as it is de-sired and necessary. On the animals farthest south the 150 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION hair is the thinnest and on those farthest north it is thethickest, but the evolutionist steps in and states that thisis due to natural selection and survival of the fittest,—that is to say, those animals in the north that happen tobe born with short hair w^ill be exterminated by the coldweather, and in that way all the short haired animalswould be weeded out and only the long haired animalswould be left to perpetuate themselves, and that is whywe find long haired animals in the north. This proposi-tion you see l

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