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Zur Autonomieentstehung in der Evolution - Eine Übersicht
The generation of autonomy in evolution - a survey
The hypothesis is advanced that major evolutionary innovations are characterized by an increase of organismal autonomy in the sense of an emancipation from the environment. After a brief overview of some new aspects of the question of macroevolutionary innovations from recent scientific… Read More
Mineralische Lumineszenz als Umkreis-Wirkung
Mineral luminescence as an expression of environment forces
By comparing luminescence phenornena of the inorganic and organic world a common motif becomes evident which can be described by the quality of ‘environment’:
Biolnminescence of animals, with its species-specific rhythms, especially characterizes evolutionarily less… Read More
Spuren des Chronos im Wurzelbereich
Traces of Chronos in the root region
Close investigation of rhythmic geniculation in root systems reveals cyclic processes of generation. Distinct roots repeatedly cease and are succeedecl by lateral ones. At a longer or shorter time before such a growth interruption takes place, the direction of growth changes more or less suddenly… Read More
Holismus und Evolution
Holisrn and Evolution
The frequently controversial issue of whether bolism and evolution are different paradigms in the life-sciences is examined through a broad discussion of all ways of thinking. The conclusion is that they are different approaches to the reality of organisms. In addition, mathematical procedures and picture-forming… Read More
Die Dreigliederung der Haut
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.
The primary formative force of the outermost layer (epidermis) produces the horny substance which isolates the physical organism from its… Read More
Über das Verhalten des Blattgrundes an blütennahen Laubblättern der Gattungen Ranzmculus und Adonis Ranunculus bulbosus, Knolliger Hahnenfuß
On the behaviour of the leaf base of leaves in the vicinity to the blossoms of the genera Ranzmculus and Adonis
In the family Ranunculaceae we sometimes find transitional forms between the usually distinct leaf organs. The last leaves before the inflorescences in the leaf successions of Ranunculus acris (meadow buttercup), Ranzmculus… Read More
Krkonoäe - das Kernland des Riesengebirges
Krkonoäe - the central region of the Giant Mountains in the Czech Republic: impressions after the political change
In addition to short excursions from 1994 to 2003, motives, experiences and results of a one-week excursion at Whitsun 2004 to the Krkonoée mountains (»Giant Mountains«) in the Czech Republic are presented. Its landscape-… Read More
Der goldene Schnitt und das Mysterium der Schönheit
The golden section and the mystery of beauty
What is beauty? It is not difficult for us to name things which we perceive as beautiful, harmonic or pleasant. But at the same time this property seems to evade all objective and scientific descriptions. A general law has not yet been found behind the mystery of beauty.
On the path… Read More
Laut - Sprache - Rhythmus und Reim
Sound - language - rhythm and rhyme
The basis of all language is sound comprising vowels and consonants. Vowels are expressions of the human mind: A - amazement at the wonders of the world and one’s own soul; E - a sobering encounter with one’s own self; I - an expression of one’s own human being in relation to the world; 0 - loving… Read More
Die Zunahme morphologischer und physiologischer Autonomie bei den Volvocales
The increase of morphological and physiological autonomy with the Volvocales
The transition to multicellularity in early evolution led to an emancipation from the environment and to an increase of organismal autonomy. As a model for this principle, the Volvocales are studied. Within the green algae a sequence from single celled forms to… Read More
