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The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?

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The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?

Oscar Hertwig and P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers), Sir Mitchell

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Is a living creature folded up complete inside the egg, or does it truly build itself from scratch? Oscar Hertwig weighs this ancient question with the new evidence of cells and development, laying groundwork for a theory of how organisms grow. A sharp, thoughtful entry in the great debate over life's beginnings. Puzzle over how a single cell becomes a whole animal.

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34 chapters

  1. 1THE BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TO-DAY
  2. 2HERTWIG
  3. 3Heinemann's Scientific Handbooks
  4. 4THE BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TO-DAY
  5. 5PREFORMATION OR EPIGENESIS? THE BASIS OF A THEORY OF ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT
  6. 6PROFESSOR DR. OSCAR HERTWIG
  7. 7DIRECTOR OF THE SECOND ANATOMICAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN
  8. 8Authorized Translation
  9. 9P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, M.A.
  10. 10WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR AND A GLOSSARY OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS
  11. 11PREFACE
  12. 12TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
  13. 13CONTENTS
  14. 14THE BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TO-DAY
  15. 15INTRODUCTION.
  16. 16FOOTNOTES:
  17. 17PART I.
  18. 18WEISMANN'S THEORY OF THE GERMPLASM AND DOCTRINE OF DETERMINANTS.

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