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es are different substances for that species._ But upon comparing the corresponding substances hemoglobins in different species of a genus it is generally found that they differ the one from the other to a greater or less degree; the differences being such that when complete crystallographic data are available the different _species can be distinguished_ by these _differences in their hemoglobins_'.... The facts thus far reported imply the suggestion that heredity of the genus is determined by the proteins of a definite constitution differing from the proteins of other genera. This constitution of the proteins would therefore be responsible for the genus heredity. The different species of a genus have all the same genus proteins, but the proteins of each species of the same genus are apparently different again in chemical constitution and hence they may give rise to the specific biological or immunity reactions." _The Organism as a Whole_, by Jacques Loeb. "_All peculiarities which are characteristic of a race, species, genus, order, class and phylum are of course inherited_, otherwise there would be no constant characteristics of these groups and no possibility of classifying organisms. The chief characters of every living thing are unalterably fixed by heredity. Men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles. Every living thing produces off-spring after its own kind, Men, horses, cattle; birds, reptiles, fishes; insects, mollusks, worms; polyps, sponges, micro-organisms,--all of the million known species of animals and plants differ from one another because of inherited peculiarities, _because they have come from different kinds of germ cells_." Conklin. "The entire organism consisting of structures and functions, body and mind, develops out of the germ, and the organization of the germ determines all the possibilities of development of the mind no less than of the body, though the actual realization of any possibility is dependent also upon environmental stimuli."... Conklin. "The development of the mind _parallels that of the body_; whatever the ultimate relation of the mind and body may be, there can be _no_ reasonable _doubt_ that the two develop together from the germ. It is a curious fact that many people who are seriously disturbed by scientific
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