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...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...
...Utica, N. Y., one Mrs. Mae Kingsley Mullane sat up till 1:30 on a Saturday night, waited for her husband, then shot him dead with a revolver. In court, last week, she heard the judge arraign her for murder, was led to a cell where she asked for something to read. Said the Utica Observer-Dispatch: "One of the magazines she is reported to have requested is Time, a weekly magazine of current events...
When M. Dzierzynzky informed him that there was little chance of his being released, he vaulted the sill of his cell window...
General Boris Savinkov, the Terrible, ended his life by jumping from the window of his prison cell in the State Political Department...
...pigeons' eggs were predominantly male. In spring and summer, small thyroids, female pigeons. One female, after hatching many clutches, actually turned male, sired a brood. (The significance of this research was that the thyroid principle, thyroxin, appeared to be more fundamentally connected with sex determination than the sex-cell chromosomes-Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institute...