PATTERN OF ORGANIC GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION 



daily, and would have died of starvation if food had been 

 withheld for as little as twelve hours. 



The scale of sizes to be found in mammals is not exceptional. 



Fig. 7. Differential growth of the skull of the baboon 

 as seen from the under surface and inside view: 1, 2, and 

 3 are from newborn, juvenile, and adult females, and 4 

 from an adult male. 



The Gobiform fish Misticthys is about half an inch long when 

 fully grown and could hardly weigh 1 /250th of an ounce. The 

 basking shark (not the largest fish) is known to reach 29 feet 



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