"… cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm."
— Charles Darwin

January 1, 1970

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(Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading the passage above will realize that Darwin thought no such thing.)