The Beginnings of Human Life
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
1977.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977. |
| Series: | Heidelberg Science Library,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6347-0 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- Classical Anatomy
- ... Is Enlarged to Kinetic Morphology
- Developmental Movements Are Detectable Today
- Serial Section Reconstructions Yield New Data about the Human Embryo
- 2 A Proper Concept for Human Embryology
- A New Concept: Differentiation in Biodynamic Metabolic Fields
- Adaptation through Growth and Heredity through Propagation
- 3 The Initial Development of the Ovum
- Life Processes during the First Cell Differentiations
- The Individuality of the Germ
- The Germ Performs Functions
- Differentiations Are Directional
- Genes Have Passive Functions
- Life Processes in the Metabolic Field of the Blastocyst
- 4 Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis
- The Error of the So-called Basic Law of Biogenetics
- Erroneous Conclusions Drawn from Phylogenetic Series
- Differentiations Are Partial Processes of Individual Development
- 5 Development of Functions
- The Different Functions of Limiting Tissue and Inner Tissue
- The Secret of the Center of Organization
- Each Cell Aggregation Has Formative Functions
- Teleological Thinking Led to Confusions
- The Earliest Differentiations Are a Development of Functions
- The Secret of the Gills
- Early and Late Functions of the Nervous System
- The Face between Brain and Heart
- 6 The Embryo's More Differentiated Developmental Movements
- The First Breath
- Early Developmental Movements in the Region of the Viscera
- The First Grasping Movements
- 7 Basic Rules of Biodynamic Differentiations
- 8 Gestures Initiated by Elementary Functions
- The Hand in the Service of Grasping
- Physiognomy and Physiognomics
- Embryonic Calendar
- Survey of Developmental Stages
- Plates.