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LUSIONS I : Metaphoracles for a Theory of Gaian Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Insect communities exhibit little intramural aggression in which one member pits itself against other members of the same community. |
| | And in those wilder reaches of animal social organization where interdependence reaches its most elaborately contrived evolutionary forms, among the hydroids and particularly in the subgroup known as siphonophores, there is none at all. |
| | In that siphonophore colony we call the Portuguese man-of-war, the transparent blue bladder that floats on the sea surface is one animal; each stinging tentacle that hangs from this float is another, each leech-like feeding polyp still another, and the community is further enlarged by separate male and female reproductive polyps. |
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