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A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology - Volume 7: A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology - Volume 7: A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Developmental Biology, 7
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"Glory to the science of embryology " So Johannes Holtfreter closed
his letter to this editor when he granted permission to publish his
article in this volume. And glory there is: glory in the phenomenon
of animals developing their complex morphologies from fertilized
eggs, and glory in the efforts of a relatively small group of
scientists to understand these wonderful events. Embryology is
unique among the biological disciplines, for it denies the hegemony
of the adult and sees value (indeed, more value) in the stages that
lead up to the fully developed organism. It seeks the origin, and
not merely the maintenance, of the body. And if embryology is the
study of the embryo as seen over time, the history of embryology is
a second-order derivative, seeing how the study of embryos changes
over time. As Jane Oppenheimer pointed out, "Sci ence, like life
itself, indeed like history, itself, is a historical phenomenon. It
can build itself only out of its past. " Thus, there are several
ways in which embryology and the history of embryology are similar.
Each takes a current stage of a developing entity and seeks to
explain the paths that brought it to its present condition. Indeed,
embryology used to be called Entwicklungsgeschichte, the
developmental history of the organism. Both embryology and its
history interpret the interplay between internal factors and
external agents in the causation of new processes and events."
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