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THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE 



diagrammatic form, and somewhat more technically than in the 

 Preface, as follows: 



Organism A 

 Under 



Newton's Laws of Motion 



and 

 Modern Thermodynamics 



Actions, Reactions, and 



Interactions 



of the 



1. Inorganic Environment: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of space, of 

 the sun, earth, air, 

 and water. 



2. Organism: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of the devel- 

 oping individual in 

 the tissues, cells, 

 protoplasm, and 

 cell-chromatin. 



3. Heredity-Germ: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of the hered- 

 ity-chromatin, in- 

 cluded in the re- 

 productive cells 

 and tissues. 



4. Life Environment: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of other or- 

 ganisms. 



Under 



Danvins Laiv 



of 



Natural Selection 



Survival of the 

 fittest: com- 

 petition, selec- 

 tion, and elim- 

 ination of the 

 energies and 

 forms. 



Organisms B-Z 

 Under 



Newton s Laws of Motion 



and 

 Modern Thermodynamics 



Actions, Reactions, and 



Interactions 



of the 



I. Inorganic Environment: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of space, of 

 the sun, earth, air, 

 and water. 



;. Organism: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of the devel- 

 oping individual in 

 the tissues, cells, 

 protoplasm, and 

 cell-chromatin. 



,. Heredity-Germ: 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of the hered- 

 ity-chromatin in- 

 cluded in the re- 

 productive cells 

 and tissues. 



4. Life Environment : 



physicochemical en- 

 ergies of other or- 

 ganisms. 



If a single name is demanded for this conception of evolu- 

 tion it might be termed the tetrakinetic theory in reference to 



