bathybian

The am [oe] ba is the connecting link which connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is, strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite.

Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881

He is but the younger kinsman of other mammals whose evolutionary development has sought other channels; these, in turn, are but younger kin of yet older animals, and so on backwards, to the beginning of life in bathybian protoplasm.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Dogmatic theology teaches that man was created from the dust of the earth, and that he at once fell heir to an estate of physical and psychical habitudes which were God-like in character; scientific investigation, on the contrary, demonstrated the fact that man's inception begins in bathybian protoplasm and culminates, as far as his general physical organism is concerned, in the last link of an evolutionary chain that reaches back and back, through countless eons of ages, to the very beginnings of life.

Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881