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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness: So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (1863-1874),
"All individuals of the "higher" insects — the butterflies and moths (Lepidopteral), flies and mosquitoes (Dipteral), and wasps, ants, and bees (Hy-menopteral) — along with many amphibians, invertabrates, and fish, undergo drastic change during their life cycles when they metamorphose from larva to adult." – Mary Jane West-Eberhard, "Developmental Plasticity and Evolution"