[New Entry by Melinda Bonnie Fagan and Jane Maienschein on June 3, 2022.] Development is a central biological process, and ideas about its nature have been influential in biological thought. This entry surveys the history of these ideas through the lens of “epigenesis vs. preformation”. Epigenesis is, roughly, the thesis that every developing entity starts Read More

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