Organism as a wholePutnam, 1916 - 379 pages |
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Page vi
... assumptions remove the problem of accounting for the harmonious character of the organism from the field of physics or chemistry . The theory of natural selection invokes neither design nor purpose , but it is incomplete since it ...
... assumptions remove the problem of accounting for the harmonious character of the organism from the field of physics or chemistry . The theory of natural selection invokes neither design nor purpose , but it is incomplete since it ...
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... assumption of a " directive force . " Bernard assumes , as Bichat and others had done before him , that there are two opposite processes going on in the living organism : ( 1 ) the pheno- mena of vital creation or organizing synthesis ...
... assumption of a " directive force . " Bernard assumes , as Bichat and others had done before him , that there are two opposite processes going on in the living organism : ( 1 ) the pheno- mena of vital creation or organizing synthesis ...
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... assumption of the " supergenes " begs the question . The writer is under the impression that this author was led to his views by the belief that the egg is entirely undifferentiated . But the unfertilized egg is not homo- geneous , on ...
... assumption of the " supergenes " begs the question . The writer is under the impression that this author was led to his views by the belief that the egg is entirely undifferentiated . But the unfertilized egg is not homo- geneous , on ...
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... assumption concerning the mechanism of evolution and that we may yet be able to account for the fact that the surviving organ- isms are to all appearances harmonious . The writer pointed out that of all the 100,000,000 conceivable ...
... assumption concerning the mechanism of evolution and that we may yet be able to account for the fact that the surviving organ- isms are to all appearances harmonious . The writer pointed out that of all the 100,000,000 conceivable ...
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... assumption of design is meaningless . And yet we are better off in regard to our knowledge of the instincts than we are in regard to morphogenesis , as in the former we can show that the apparent instincts in some cases obey simple ...
... assumption of design is meaningless . And yet we are better off in regard to our knowledge of the instincts than we are in regard to morphogenesis , as in the former we can show that the apparent instincts in some cases obey simple ...
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agglutination animals annelids Arbacia Arch artificial membrane artificial parthenogenesis assumption bacteria Biol blastomeres blood body butyric acid cell division chapter characters chemical chromosome concentration contained cortical layer cytolysis definite determined digestion disintegration Driesch effect egg of purpuratus embryo enter the egg Entwcklngsmech enzyme existence experiments eyes f. d. ges fact female fertilized fish foreign species franciscanus frog Fundulus genus give rise graft groups grow growth heliotropic hemoglobin heredity hermaphroditic hybrids hypertonic solution idea induce Jour lack of oxygen large number larvæ latter light Lillie lipoids living matter Loeb male Mendelian heredity normal sea water nucleus observed ovaries oxidations parthenogenesis permeability phenomena phenomenon physicochemical Physiol pigment plants polyp positively heliotropic possible produced proteins protoplasm pure reaction regeneration result rôle salts sea urchin sea water sea-urchin egg segment serum shown sperm spermatozoön spermatozoön enters starfish Strongylocentrotus substances synthesis theory tion tissue transplanted unfertilized egg Wasteneys X chromosome