The Struggle of Parts
Wilhelm Roux, "The Struggle of Parts"
English | ISBN: 067429064X | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 067429064X | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itself.
Though he is remembered primarily as a pioneer of experimental embryology, Wilhelm Roux was also a groundbreaking evolutionary theorist. Years before his research on chicken and frog embryos cemented his legacy as an experimentalist, Roux endorsed the radical idea that a “struggle for existence” within organisms―between organs, tissues, cells, and even subcellular components―drives individual development.
Convinced that external competition between individuals is inadequate to explain the exquisite functionality of bodily parts, Roux aimed to uncover the mechanistic principles underlying self-organization.
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