evolution

Do we understand life in development?

This contribution discusses the obstacles to understanding the evolution of living nature and the human being. What are these obstacles? Life can show us what true time really is, for which our concept of Newtonian time is inadequate. The way we ordinarily understand our soul and spirit is… read more

Do we understand life in development?

This contribution discusses the obstacles to understanding the evolution of living nature and the human being. What are these obstacles? Life can show us what true time really is, for which our concept of Newtonian time is inadequate. The way we ordinarily understand our soul and spirit is… read more

Sketch of an organismic systems biology

Biology has been dominated for a long time by two contrasting explanations and research approaches: reductionism and holism. This article shows that both views are one-sided and that a new synthesis can be developed. We develop a fundamental concept of the organism starting from the earlier… read more

Sketch of an organismic systems biology

Biology has been dominated for a long time by two contrasting explanations and research approaches: reductionism and holism. This article shows that both views are one-sided and that a new synthesis can be developed. We develop a fundamental concept of the organism starting from the earlier… read more

Goethe and evolution

During the 17th and 18th centuries ‘evolution’ literally meant unwrapping what was already there. Goethe and Darwin therefore avoided this term, preferring to use ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘desccnt’. It was Herbert Spencer who first used the term in its modern sense. There upon, however, Goethe was a complete evolutionist… read more

Goethe and evolution

During the 17th and 18th centuries ‘evolution’ literally meant unwrapping what was already there. Goethe and Darwin therefore avoided this term, preferring to use ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘desccnt’. It was Herbert Spencer who first used the term in its modern sense. There upon, however, Goethe was a complete evolutionist… read more

The evolution of the skin and the skin-associated immune system

This paper considers the formation of the skin and its associated structures from the most primitive metazoa to the human being: 

- In Porifera the delirnitation from the outer world is incomplete. A proper epidermal sheath does not exist, merely a thin coating in… read more

The evolution of the skin and the skin-associated immune system

This paper considers the formation of the skin and its associated structures from the most primitive metazoa to the human being: 

- In Porifera the delirnitation from the outer world is incomplete. A proper epidermal sheath does not exist, merely a thin coating in… read more

Evolutionary Biology today

Following the initial discovery of photosynthesis and respiration of organic substance, General Biology has discovered the principle of symbiosis at all levels of the living world: in the biosphere as a whole, in the eco-organism of the landscape and in the so-called single organisms of plants and animals,… read more

Evolutionary Biology today

Following the initial discovery of photosynthesis and respiration of organic substance, General Biology has discovered the principle of symbiosis at all levels of the living world: in the biosphere as a whole, in the eco-organism of the landscape and in the so-called single organisms of plants and animals,… read more