How to call It?

There is opposition, vulnerability, wear and erosion, there is domination, there is culture of the resources.

Then the bodies prepare to move and venture into space, to explore it and adapt to it; the hare and the snake, the eagle and the elephant, the bee, the trout, the eel and the dolphin, the dragonfly, the rhinoceros and the wolf, the sparrow and the ape, so many models innumerably are composed to withstand the test of time and space.

None of these, however, can last longer than its time.

No animal body, no matter how perfected and capable, has been able to develop faculties of indefinite preservation and renewal.

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In some species, particularly mammalian species, a beginning of individualization appears more precise, with fine and unique variations in their morphology and physiognomy and with the formation of vital characteristics specific to each member. The increase and diversification of their individualized possibilities of response and expression in relation to the whole and to the common milieu, gradually cleave the way of their destiny.

The human body stands erect, from sky to earth and earth to sky and it can face every direction; its limbs can reach and hold, push and hit.

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