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"There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila." — Alfred Henry Sturtevant
"Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system." — Erasmus Darwin (1794)
"There is no sharp boundary line separating the reactions of the immune bodies from chemical processes between crystalloids, just as in nature…
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