Epigenesis

• Biologie: Die Theorie, dass sich Organismen aus zuvor nicht bereits in Ei oder Samen enthaltenen Strukturen ausdifferenzieren (im ggs. zur Präformation) (Vgl.: Zellausdifferenzierung).
• Geologie: Die Behauptung eines geomorphologischen Prozesses gegenüber anderen Strukturen.

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• Rose, S.A.: Rationalism and Embryology. C.F. Wolff's Theory of Epigenesis. In: Journal of the History of Biology 12, 1979, S. 1-34.

• Rose, S.A.: Matter, Life and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Enbryology and the Haller-Wolf-Debate. Cambridge, 1981.

• Nobis, H. M.: (Art.) Epigenesis, in: Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie. Hg.v. J. Ritter. Bd. 2, Basel/Stuttgart, 1971, Sp. 580-581. Inhaltsangabe

• Felsenfeld, G.: A brief history of epigenetics. In: Allis, C.D. et al. (Hg.). Epigenetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 2007, S. 15-22.

• Goodwin, B. und P. Saunders (Hg.). Theoretical Biology. Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1989.

• Hertwig, O.: Zeit- und Streitfragen der Biologie, Heft 1. Präformation oder Epigenese? Grundzüge einer Entwicklungstheorie der Organismen, 1894.

• Ho, M.W. und P.T. Saunders: Beyond neo-darwinism – an epigenetic approach to evolution. In: Journal of theoretical Biology 78, 1979, S. 573-591.

• Holliday, R.: Epigenetics: a historical overview. In: Epigenetics 1, 2006, S. 76-80.

• Ingensiep, H.W.: Organism, epigenesis, and life in Kant’s thinking – biophilosophy between transcendental philosophy, intuitive analogy, and empirical ontology. In: Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 11, 2006, S. 59-84.

• Larsen, E.W. und J. Atallah: Epigenesis, preformation, and the humpty dumpty problem. In: Hallgrímsson, B. & Hall, B.K. (eds.). Epigenetics. Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011, S. 103-115.

• Rieppel, O.: Atomism, epigenesis, preformation and pre-existence: a clarification of terms and consequences. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 28, 1986, S. 331-341.

• Rieppel, O.: Preformationist and epigenetic biases in the history of the morphological character concept. In: Wagner, G.P. (Hg.). The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001, S. 57-75.

• Speybroeck, Linda Van: From Epigenesis to Epigenetics. The Case of C. H. Waddington. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 981, 2006, S. 61 – 81.

• Speybroeck, Linda Van; Gertrudis Van de Vijver und Dani De Waele (Hg.): From Epigenesis to epigenetics: the genome in context. New York, 2002.
  • Darin:
    • Jablonka, Eva u. Marion J. Lamb: The Changing Concept of Epigenetics, S. 61-81.
    • Moss, L.: From representational preformationism to the epigenesis of openness to the world? Reflections on a new vision of the organism, 219-230.

• Stotz, K.: Molecular epigenesis: distributed specificity as a break in the Central Dogma. In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28, 2006, S. 533-548.

• Witt, E.: Form – a matter of generation: the relation of generation, form, and function in the epigenetic theory of Caspar F. Wolff. In: Science in Context 21, 2008, S. 649-664.

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