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- Title
Studying form.
- Authors
Berry, Andrew
- Abstract
Preformationism, the doctrine that gametes contain preformed miniature humans and that development is simply a matter of amplifying what is already there. It all seems wonderfully silly, especially as the logical corollary is that Eve's ovaries contained, ready formed, the germ of every human to come. But it is believed that modern biology's proudest achievement, the Human Genome Project, owes much to preformationism. After all, under both preformationism and modern notions of development, conception does not start life from scratch, but simply activates a program that was already in existence, that's the genome if you're in the twenty-first century, or the preformed germ if you're in the eighteenth.
- Subjects
HUMAN genome; GAMETES; LIFE sciences; GENE mapping; BIOLOGY; GENETICS
- Publication
Nature, 2004, Vol 429, Issue 6988, p133
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/429133a