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

Name: The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis?
Author: Oscar Hertwig

by Oscar Hertwig

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The Biological Problem of To-day: Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Bryan Ness, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Release date

2011-08-27

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Public domain in the USA.

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Developmental biology Embryology Genetics

About the author

Oscar Hertwig

1849–1922

A pioneering German embryologist and zoologist, he helped reshape biology by showing that fertilization begins when the sperm and egg nuclei fuse. His work on cell division and development made him one of the key scientific figures of the late 19th century.

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