EVOLUTION AND HUMAN DESTINY 



colony. They are often unable to undergo fission out- 

 side the colony, or if they do, are not able to invigorate 

 themselves by means of conjugation. 



The extropy of the colony must be considered to be 

 greater than the extropy of the total aggregate number 

 of cells comprising the colony arranged at random. 

 This is obviously true, as the orderliness of the arrange- 

 ment has been superimposed upon the initial order 

 existing within the cells. 



Reproduction of the cell colony can take place by 

 means of internal fission. By this method "daughter 

 colonies" develop inside the "parent colony" and are 

 eventually "born" by disintegration or inversion of the 

 parent. However as one might expect, reproduction by 

 means of binary fission alone cannot continue indefi- 

 nitely. A form of conjugation process must take place 

 at various intervals. Significantly enough this conjuga- 

 tion does not take place between entire colonies, but 

 only between specialized cells from inside the same 

 colony (hermaphrodite method) , or between special- 

 ized cells from different colonies (sexual method) . It 

 appears therefore, that these specialized cells carry 

 within their organization not only the ability to per- 

 petuate their own structure, but the cells which they 

 develop into have the additional property of associa- 

 tion, forming colonies in the same manner in which 

 their ancestors did. This means that the reproductively 

 active cells of cell-colonies carry within their organ- 



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