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• Title:
  Developmental Causation: A Set of Strict Instructions or a Self-organized Morphogenetic Field?
• Creator:
  Beloussov, Lev V.
• Description:
  Two alternative versions of interpreting the developmental events are discussed. The first of them regards the development as a set of highly specific steps each of them being caused by a unique special force, or an “instruction”. By this version, nothing outside the rigidly determined chain of events is presented, and the ultimate aim of a researcher is in making a list of specific instructions. The second version is centered around the notion of an extended spatio-temporal continuum (morphogenetic field). Any developmental trajectory is now considered to be the function of this continuum’s geometry in Euclidean and/or phase space. Within the context of such an alternative we review the classical embryological data related to inductive phenomena and embryonic regulations. The contours of a morphogenetic field theory are sketched.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
• Date:
  2007.04.02
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Vol. 6 No. 2 (2002): Knowledge, Representation and Interpretation: From Quanta to Cultures; 135-159;
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Tom 6 Nr 2 (2002): Knowledge, Representation and Interpretation: From Quanta to Cultures; 135-159;
  2392-1196;
  0867-4159
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2002.027/13421
• Subject:
  developmental events;
  psychology;
  epistemology;
  biology;
  developmental trajectories
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2002.027
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text