“Man Evolved From Seaweed”
(Rec. 7 p.m.) t INDIANAPOLIS, December 27. Man was not an animal, but a plant which- evolved from brown seaweed, a biologist said today. Dr. Lawrence S. Dillon, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Indianapolis: “All animals are in reality a type of highly modified plant life, derived a billion years or so ago from a common ancestry with the brown seaweed.”
From recent evidence “we are forced to conclude that all life belongs to only one kingdom, which in all honesty must be recognised as the kingdom of plants,” said Dr. Lawrence.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28472, 30 December 1957, Page 5
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