

The strategy of life
Book • 1989
The Strategy of Life chronicles the efforts of German biologists like Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer to establish a unified theory of life by combining teleology with mechanistic theories.
This approach led to significant contributions in fields such as comparative anatomy and embryology, despite controversies with mechanistic reductionism and Darwinism.
This approach led to significant contributions in fields such as comparative anatomy and embryology, despite controversies with mechanistic reductionism and Darwinism.
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