The Beginnings of Human Life [electronic resource].

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Transemantics, Inc. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1977
Subjects:	Life sciences., Human anatomy., Embryology., Life Sciences., Anatomy.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6347-0
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