 | Stefano Mancuso - 2006 - 486 pages
...the sensitiveness of the tip of the radicle: "it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip ... acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the...anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense organs, and directing the several movements" (Darwin 1880, p. 573). Charles Darwin was much taken... | |
 | 1899 - 606 pages
...animals, or, as he himself" wrote, " It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radical thus endowed, and having the power of directing the...brain being seated within the anterior end of the hody, receiving impressions from the sense-organs and directing the several movements." 242 APRIL 8,... | |
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals ; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the... 
