preservationist

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This is of such obvious importance from the mechanical point of view that the speculations of to-day tend to move along the old preformationist lines.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Roux himself was to a certain extent a preformationist, for the development of his first-period characters is conditioned by the inherited organisation of the germ-plasm, and is purely automatic.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The main importance of Harvey's vigorous and cogent defense of epigenesis is that it provided some kind of counterbalance to the increasingly dominant preformationist interpretations of embryonic development.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.

Oscar Hertwig,68 de Vries, Driesch69 and others attempt to reconcile the preformationist and the epigenetic standpoints, and “to extract what is good and usable out of both.”

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf