Form or Gestalt is a specific characteristic of every living organism. It is closely linked to function and contains information per se. Gestalt can be understood as both a cause and an effect of n... read more
Summary
Throughout the history of biology, there have always been two opposing basic views of life. The one view tried to attribute the processes of life to mechanistic... read more
The threefoldness of the skin
If the three layers of the human skin are analysed according to a functional view, a picture of the effective formative forces in the skin is produced.
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The concept of causality in relation to vitalism
This hitherto unpublished part of the early work of Gerbert Grohmann (1897-1957) presents the philosophical contribution belonging... read more
The history and problem of the idea of evolution
The usual picture of the phylogenetic process is that there were first single-celled bacteria-like organisms followed by multicellular,»l... read more
Wing pattern; ofbutterflies (Lepidoptem) as mirrors ofenvironmental colours and light
Research in the tropics of the southern continents as well as in the temperate regions during the las... read more