 | Samuel Butler - 2004 - 378 páginas
...many generations, of them during our single lifetime. "An organic being," (writes Mr. Darwin), "is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of...selfpropagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars in heaven." As these myriads of smaller organisms are parts and processes of... | |
 | John Christopher Willis, Hugo de Vries, Henry Brougham Guppy, Eleanor Mary Reid, James Small - 1922 - 280 páginas
...clear basis of the present manifold theories of heredity. An organic being is a microcosm, says Darwin, a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars of heaven. In honour of Darwin, I have proposed to call these minute organisms... | |
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Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven. 
