Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- CHAPTER II OUR BODILY FRAME
- CHAPTER III OUR LIFE
- CHAPTER IV OUR EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES
- CHAPTER VI THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER VII PSYCHIC GRADATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII THE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER IX THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER X CONSCIOUSNESS
- CHAPTER XI THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER XII THE LAW OF SUBSTANCE
- CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XIV THE UNITY OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XV GOD AND THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XVI KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF
- CHAPTER XVII SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER XVIII OUR MONISTIC RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIX OUR MONISTIC ETHICS
- CHAPTER XX SOLUTION OF THE WORLD-PROBLEMS
- INDEX
CHAPTER IV - OUR EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- CHAPTER II OUR BODILY FRAME
- CHAPTER III OUR LIFE
- CHAPTER IV OUR EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES
- CHAPTER VI THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER VII PSYCHIC GRADATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII THE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER IX THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER X CONSCIOUSNESS
- CHAPTER XI THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER XII THE LAW OF SUBSTANCE
- CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XIV THE UNITY OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XV GOD AND THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XVI KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF
- CHAPTER XVII SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER XVIII OUR MONISTIC RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIX OUR MONISTIC ETHICS
- CHAPTER XX SOLUTION OF THE WORLD-PROBLEMS
- INDEX
Summary
The older embryology. The theory of preformation. The theory of scatulation. Haller and Leibnitz. The theory of epigenesis. C. F. Wolff. The theory of germinal layers. Carl Ernst Baer. Discovery of the human ovum. Remak, Kölliker. The egg-cell and the sperm-cell. The theory of the gastræa. Protozoa and metazoa. The ova and the spermatozoa. Oscar Hertwig. Conception. Embryonic development in man. Uniformity of the vertebrate embryo. The germinal membranes in man. The amnion, the serolemma, and the allantois. The formation of the placenta and the “after-birth.” The decidua and the funiculus umbilicalis. The discoid placenta of man and the ape.
Comparative ontogeny, or the science of the development of the individual animal, is a child of the nineteenth century in even a truer sense than comparative anatomy and physiology. How is the child formed in the mother's womb? How do animals evolve from ova? How does the plant come forth from the seed? These pregnant questions have occupied the thoughtful mind for thousands of years. Yet it is only seventy years since the embryologist Baer pointed out the correct means and methods for penetrating into the mysteries of embryonic life; it is only forty years since Darwin, by his reform of the theory of descent, gave us the key which should open the long-closed door, and lead to a knowledge of embryonic agencies. As I have endeavoured to give a complete, popular presentation of this very interesting but difficult study in the first section of my Anthropogeny, I will confine myself here to a brief survey and discussion of the most important phenomena.
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