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The previous Essay traced some epistemological stages along Driesch’s road to neo-vitalism, a transgression that is singular in view of his previous merits (and recognition) as an experimental embryologist. Here we shall review his experimental work between the teleo-mechanistic Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung of 1894 (see Essay 11) and the end of his career as an active embryologist, which came shortly after his neo-vitalistic Gifford Lectures of 1908.
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Sander, K. (1997). Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine — work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910. In: Landmarks in Developmental Biology 1883–1924. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_13
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