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The energy evolved as a consequence of stimulation 

 may be employed mainly in producing structural 

 modifications of the cell substance, or it may be ex- 

 pended mainly in producing motor reactions. The 

 response is usually purposive and social in either 

 case. 



Zur Strassen in a discussion of "Animal Behavior 

 and Development" before the Seventh International 

 Zoological Congress at Boston called attention to 

 the social behavior of cells and the analogies be- 

 tween such behavior and the activities of social in- 

 sects. The comparison is suggestive, but as Zur 

 Strassen points out, there is a closer relationship be- 

 tween the cells of the metazoan body and the pro- 

 tozoa, which are not improbably the direct ances- 

 tors of these cells. Were the protozoa social in 

 their behavior, did the different behavior of the 

 several castes depend upon mutual interaction as it 

 does to a certain degree among social insects, the 

 analogy between behavior and development would 

 indeed be close. 



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