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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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see — intermixed with these — other bi-segmented bodies 

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 segments are freely movable. These bodies (about as 

 large as medium-sized, ordinary Bacterid) generally ex- 

 hibit the most active movements — darting about from 

 place to place with rapid eel-like bendings of their body. 

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