10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREFORMATIONIST»
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preformationist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
preformationist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Therefore a concept having the enumerated properties is always already present
in the human mind (section 4.4; as noted in that section, Franklin [2001] is a
preformationist fellow traveler). The story of “the emergence of probability,” given
this ...
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Challenging Genetic Determinism: New Perspectives on the ...
sub-currents of the preformationist master-frame, each of which offered a
competing explanation of the guiding forces underlying inheritance and the
development of living organisms. Nonetheless, there seems to be a straight-line
critical path ...
Royal Society of Canada. Symposium, Louis Maheu, Roderick A. Macdonald, 2011
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The Elements of Experimental Embryology
in development from the egg, but only a realisation, expansion, and rendering
visible of a pre-existing diversity. Preformation is the fundamental assumption of
views of this type, and they are classed together as preformationist theories. But
the ...
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Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
For DST, the idea that genetic information is the source of form in development is
a lapse back into preformationist error. According to DST, the informational gene
is the preformationist's last stand; it expresses the idea that although the adult ...
Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, Russell D. Gray, 2003
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The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: ...
though Hertwig agreed with Weismann that heredity was localized in the cell
nucleus, he criticized Weismann 's theory as preformationist. Weismann
explained properties of the observed embryo by assigning them to corresponding
properties ...
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Exploring Psychological Horizons
synthetic approach and, then, adjusting various facets of the synthetic position to
a preformationist perspective. In other words, much of the evidence compiled by
modern genetics represents data that fit equally well into either an evolutionary ...
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Linguistics and Evolution: A Developmental Approach
Although this theory is now widely discredited, the developmental psychologist
Susan Oyama argues convincingly that preformationist thinking is alive and well
and has shape-shifted into our ideas about information, the modern source of
form ...
Julie Tetel Andresen, 2013
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A History of the Life Sciences, Revised and Expanded
The mechanistic view of the world that his work had stimulated led to the growing
influence of preformationist models of development. During this period,
preformationists were generally defenders of mechanism, while epigenesis
seemed to ...
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The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in ...
Consequently the preformationist model led to the conclusion that "the offspring
at last brought to light, . . . ought to go on forever like their first parents".5 For the
staunch defender of Mailer's theory of development and organic form, then, the ...
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Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in ...
Cole, Joseph Needham, and Jacques Roger,55 has done much to advance our
knowledge of preformationist theory as a field in and of itself. Nonetheless, no
studies to date have documented the reception of preformationist embryology in ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREFORMATIONIST»
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preformationist is used in the context of the following news items.
Peter Saunders Sorts Out Confusion Over "Epigenetics"
Essentially, the genetic theory that underlies neo-Darwinism is a preformationist theory. Everything that matters is there at the start. That's why ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
How to refresh your inner Gollum: health and the homunculus
As a concept it has been used for centuries in preformationist, alchemic and fictional writing. Today, however, it is more often used in the field of ... «The Guardian, Jun 14»
The Violinist's Thumb
Under preformationist theory, such spontaneous generation wasn't necessary: homuncular babies were indeed preformed and merely needed ... «NPR, May 12»
The history of science, on its own terms
Few disagreed with the preformationist doctrine, which held that each human being existed preformed in either the egg or the sperm. «PLoS Blogs, Feb 11»
