Embryological Models in Ancient Philosophy.
Historically embryogenesis has been among the most philosophically intriguing phenomena. In this paper I focus on one aspect of biological development that was particularly perplexing to the ancients: self-organisation. For many ancients, the fact that an organism determines the important features o...
| Publicado en: | Phronesis Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 1 - 43 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Feb2005
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