"We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape."

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About Asa Gray

American botanist regarded as one of the most important U.S. botanists of the 19th century. He was a leading advocate for Darwin's ideas in America and developed major botanical reference works. He died in 1888.

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