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Cell Line Segregation as a Key Event of Embryonic Development

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It is, perhaps, seemly to introduce our topic by presenting a chart from Ernst Haeckel’s “Allgemeine Morphologie der Organismen” (1866), the subtitle of which was “The General Science of the Animals” (Fig. 1). Very little, and that mostly vocabulary, should be changed to compile a modern chart entitled “The Study of the Animal Individual.” The eight columns at the bottom of the chart show Haeckel’s conviction that the basis for a “Gesammtwissenschaft” of animals was the study of their development in its different aspects. In particular, he wrote “All morphological and physiological unions of aggregated individuals … are the necessary result of the simpler individuals that compose it … and, to be sure, in the last instance of its active constituents.”

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    Alberto Monroy

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Monroy, A., Parisi, E. (1984). Cell Line Segregation as a Key Event of Embryonic Development. In: Fox, S.W. (eds) Individuality and Determinism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9379-9_5

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