Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Classic Reprint

E. S. Russell

ISBN 10: 1451011377 / ISBN 13: 9781451011371

Edité par Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titre: Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Classic Reprint
• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1451011377
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781451011371
• Reliure: PAP
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 751 grammes

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Synopsis

A clear, survey-style study of how animal form and function have been understood across history.

This volume surveys early ideas in comparative anatomy and the birth of modern morpholog y. It traces Aristotle’s influence, the rise of the cell theory, and the shift from teleology to material explanations of form. Readers will glimpse how ideas about homology, correlation, and development shaped our view of animal structure, without requiring prior specialist training.

What you’ll experience

• Concise explanations of key concepts in the history of anatomy and morphology


• Discussion of how early thinkers approached the unity of plan across animals


• Insights into the cell theory and its impact on 19th‑century biology


• Context for how ideas about evolution and development evolved over time

Ideal for readers of science history and students seeking a grounded, accessible overview of how morphology shaped biological thought.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is not intended to be a full or detailed history of animal morphology: a complete account is given neither of morphological discoveries nor of morphological theories. My aim has been rather to call attention to the existence of diverse typical attitudes to the problems of form, and to trace the interplay of the theories that have arisen out of them.
FORM AND FUNCTION CHAPTER 1 THE liKGlKNIKGS Of COMPAUATf VE ANATOMY The first name of which the history of anatomy keeps record is that of Alcmacon, a contemporary of Pythagoras (6th century n.c). His interests appear to have been rather physiological than anatomical. He traced the chief nerves of sense to the brain, which he considered to be the seat of the sonl, and he made .some good guesses at the mechanism of the organs of special sense. He showed that, contrary to the received opinion, the seminal fluid did not originate in the spinal cord. Two comparisons arc recorded of his, one that puberty is the equivalent of the flowering time in plants, the other that milk is the equivalent of white of egg.1 Both show his bias towards looking at the functional side of living things. The latter comparison reappears in Aristotle. A century later Diogenes of Apollonia gave a description of the venous system. He too placed the seat of sensation in the brain. He assumed a vital air in

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ; I Thu Beginnings of Comparative Anatomy i; II Comparative Anatomy re pore Cuvier ; III Cuvikk 3'; IV Goethe 45; V ftienne geoffroy St HlLAIKE 5^; VI The Followers of Ktifnne Gfoffroy St Hilairr 70; VII The German Transcen dent a lists so; VI11 Transcendental Anatomv in England-Richard ; Owen 102; IX Karl Ernst von Baer 113; X The Emkryological Criterion '33; XI The Cell-Theory 169; XII The Close of the I'rf-evolutionarv Period 190; xm The Ketati