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flourished, and vanished, many of them types that may have 

 seemed more suited for survival than our old Coelacanth, but 

 he has outlived them all. He goes plodding steadily on, his needs 

 few and simple, and he will quite likely still be there when many of 

 these 'active modern types', which are supposed to have driven 

 him to the depths, will be gone and long forgotten. He reminds 

 one of a solitary, tough old man, asking favours of none. Old man 

 Coelacanth. Degenerate ? Never 1 



