We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
Asa GrayAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 18, 1810
- Died: January 30, 1888
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