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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

compromise the various functions or systems of the organism. For example, vegetable
poisons, which can be found, in some degree, in every plant, negatively affect the

cells of neurons. So it is no accident that cells, similar in structure to neurons, cannot
be found in plants. The doses of vegetable poisons eaten by herbivores, that is, plant-
consuming animals, exceed the amount that these animals are capable of metabolizing.
The excess of vegetable poisons adversely affects the evolution of neurons and
makes it impossible for neurons of these animals to acquire a mental body, without
which the manifestation of a certain level of intelligence is impossible.

Carnivorous animals ingest such enormous quantities of ptomaine and other animal
poisons that they are unable to metabolize them completely. Ptomaine so profoundly
alters their metabolism that the cerebral neurons of these animals cannot receive the
requisite quantities of elements essential for the formation and development of mental
bodies.

Omnivorous animals ingest both vegetable and animal poisons with their food. But the

quantities eaten are within the range that allows them to completely break down the
ingested poisons. This permits conditions favorable for the development of neurons
with mental bodies, and therefore intelligence.

Thus, the vegetable forms of life are the foundation for any ecological system.
What, then, determines the quantity of vegetable biomass in an ecological system?
How much vegetable biomass is necessary for its survival? The basic and decisive

features for any ecological system are the following:

a) the strength of solar photonic radiation (sunlight) reaching a unit of surface per unit
of time, within a certain allowable range, which if exceeded, is lethal to all living
creatures.

b) the BEF of vegetable organisms, that is, the fraction of sunlight absorbed by plants
and utilized for the synthesis of organic compounds.

c) the quantity of plants of different types.

d) the quality of plants of one type.

Expressed mathematically we have the following equation:

s i j
ij
∫ ∫ ∫W(t) Ψ(ij) n(ij) ds di dj = m p(t) (4)
0 0 0
where:

ij
m p(t) — equals the quantity of vegetable biomass synthesized per unit of time by all
plants growing on a unit of the planet’s surface. Herbivorous animals consume a

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