Its "epigenesis" is shown to be a literary example of the phases of cell division, with discussions of its prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream of Mind and Machine] Reference
This point established, two hypotheses remain: that of 'pre-existence' and that of 'epigenesis'. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
"epigenesis", viz., that the development of the embryo is real successive production of visible manifoldness, real construction of new parts, goes back to Aristotle. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Nowak has no papers about epigenesis that I could notice. From Wordnik.com. [Zimmer Profiles Nowak - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Espous - ing epigenesis and a teleological vitalism, he insisted on qualitative change. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In effect, this interpretation of epigenesis depended on a life force within the organism driving its emergence of form. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
Preformation, stability, and predictability stood on one side, with epigenesis, dynamic process, and change on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
“Mechanistic” epigenesis, as these theories might be termed, was generally rejected in the latter seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
In other words, what I sought was a substance from which the whole organism might arise by epigenesis, and not by evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
Yet typically discussions of epigenesis and preformation have focused on individual organisms and their development rather than on species. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
Nature or nurture, epigenesis or preformation, genetic determinism or developmental free will, or is some version of a middle ground possible?. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
He was greatly impressed with this fact, which, as a convinced believer in epigenesis, he used with great effect against the preformistic theories. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Furthermore some authors saw epigenesis or preformation as entirely internally directed, while others in each case allowed responses to the environment. From Wordnik.com. [Epigenesis and Preformationism] Reference
But epigenesis had become linked with the notion of spontaneous generation, and was discredited along with that notion by the experiments of Lazaro Spallanzani. From Wordnik.com. [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference
Pangenesis would have been obscured in the great debate that followed between epigenesis preformation had it not been for Maupertius and Buffon in the second half of the century. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In the present case, a delicate physiological problem has become as popular as theories on epigenesis, spontaneous generation, or Darwinian evolution, and for an analogous reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
We find nothing in Lamarck's writings opposed to epigenesis. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
Von Baer established in its place the doctrine of epigenesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
For example, epigenesis as the model of thought in the life sciences in 1781, with his publication of. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
For while Wolff's fundamental theory of epigenesis, which was promulgated in 1759, was not recognised until. From Wordnik.com. [Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English] Reference
The establishment of the doctrine of epigenesis has obviously increased indefinitely the hopelessness of a mechanical explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
(P. 163.) “The doctrine of ‘epigenesis’ is derived from. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
This account of epigenesis is an interesting one. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
Development, by epigenesis or evolution?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
Robert JS (2000) Schizophrenia epigenesis?. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
‘pre-existence’ and that of ‘epigenesis’. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
'appearance' for the moment of 'formation' he imagined 'epigenesis'. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
"epigenesis.". From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference
‘epigenesis’.”. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
| | views; epigenesis | |. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
Robert, J.S. (2004), Embryology, epigenesis, and evolution: taking development seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Reductionism in Biology] Reference
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