Sentences with phrase «morphological change of living»

It is most striking that the morphological change of living creatures seems to have slowed down at the precise moment when Thought appeared on earth.

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(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

His point is that morphological changes in living things, if we view them intuitively, do seem to proceed from, or in, the periphery — think of the blastula or neurula in embryology, or of the unfolding of leaves in botany.