Draft:Entwicklungsmechanik

  • Comment: It may well be that this topic merits a page. However, as written only someone in the field will know. An educated scientist in another field (e.g. me) will have no idea whether this is notable, a hoax or what. Please develop it a bit more, indicating how it connects to 21st century science instead of relying exvlusively upon 60 year old sources. Ldm1954 (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Entwicklungsmechanik, or developmental mechanics, is a concept founded in 1875 by Wilhelm His Sr. (1831-1904) and in 1882 by Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924).[1]. It was further investigated by Hans Driesch (1867-1941) and Hans Spemann (1869-1941). Factors and mechanisms of development are today investigated as part of Developmental biology.

Early researchers in Entwicklungsmechanik tried to prove the epigenetic character of fetal development by influencing the order of normal development stages through mechanical interventions in Blastomeres. This was intended to probe the validity of Preformationism, and ended up establishing an experimental approach to Embryology. Among others, Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1948) and Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958) later connected the field to Genetics[2] [3] [4]

References

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  1. ^ Paul Diepgen, Heinz Goerke: Aschoff/Diepgen/Goerke: Kurze Übersichtstabelle zur Geschichte der Medizin. 7th, reviewed edition. Springer, Berlin/Göttingen/Heidelberg 1960, p. 41 and 46.
  2. ^ Friedrich Vogel: Allgemeine Humangenetik. Springer, Berlin 1961, p. 2, 232 f. on „Epigenese, Präformationslehre“ and S. 450 on „Entwicklungsmechanik“.
  3. ^ Otto Grosser edited by Rolf Ortmann: Grundriß der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 6th edition, Springer, Berlin 1966; p. 2, 24 f. on „Entwicklungsmechanik“.
  4. ^ Helmut Ferner: Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 7th edition, Reinhardt, München 1965; p. 11 on „Entwicklungsmechanik“ and p. 11, 49 ff. on „Entwicklungsphysiologie“.