"... The two problems which face every organism are those of maintaining its own life and continuing its race. Its youth is devoted entirely to satisfying its individual needs for food and safety; its adult life is devoted to the race, but the necessities of the individual are still satisfied though they may be secured in an entirely different way. The immature life of is aquatic, and to it all adjustments concerned with food or safety are exclusively confined. The mature or adult life is aerial. It is solely devoted to reproduction. There is no provision for food or for other means of lengthening its life. It gives an opportunity for studying ways of getting a living which have been completely isolated from ways of reproducing."
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Ann Haven Morgan
(May 6, 1882 – June 5, 1966) was an American , zoologist, conservationist, and educational reformer, advocating equal educational opportunities for women. She received in 1912 her Ph.D. from Cornell University and became in 1918 a full professor at . She was mentored by . In 1920 Morgan was elected a Fellow of the .
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