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physiologically as those kept on other diets. Their susceptibility 

 is distinctly lower than that of animals at the same stage in nature 

 or in stocks kept on a diet of liver or earthworm. Their motor 

 activity is also less than that of these animals and their rate of 

 growth is slow. There can be no doubt that these animals undergo 

 much less rejuvenescence in the reproductive and reconstitutional 

 processes than do those on the other diets, and it is evident that the 

 degree of rejuvenescence is progressively less in each successive 

 generation. 



These experiments with different diets have been described at 

 some length because they demonstrate that the course of the life 

 cycle may be very greatly altered by the character of nutrition. 

 The effect of the mussel diet is to a certain degree inherited and 

 cumulative from one generation to another and in this respect 

 differs from that of the other diets. The chief value of these 

 experiments lies in their suggestiveness as indicating what 

 may be accomplished with diets carefully limited to particular 

 kinds of cells or tissues or to substances of particular chemical 

 constitution. 



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