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In biology, epigenesis is the process by which plants, animals and fungi develop from a seed, spore or egg through a sequence of steps in which cells differentiate and organs form. As opposed to preformationism, it is also called neoformationism. The originator of theory of epigenesis was Aristotle in his book ''On the Generation of Animals.'' Though the theory seems an obvious fact to us in today's genetic age, nonetheless the theory was not given much credence in former times because of the dominance for many centuries of Creationist theories of life's origins.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=IUfAsFSPf6oC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=spallanzani+epigenesis&source=web&ots=yRuS8F4bjQ&sig=kqF-9nu4yL1DPAqB9wLmVf3n-UI#PPP1,M1 Marianne Henn & Holger A. Pausch, ''Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe,'' 2003, pp.169-175〕 However, during the late 18th century an extended and controversial debate by biologists finally led epigenesis to eclipse the long-established preformationist view.〔http://www.springerlink.com/index/Q3T8577K012T4281.pdf Al Baxter, ''Edmund B. Wilson as a preformationist: Some reasons for his acceptance of the chromosome theory,'' Journal of the History of Biology, 9,1, March, 1976, pp.29-57〕 〔http://www.spallanzani.it/paginanews.asp?id=17 ''Spallanzani in New York, Spallanzani's Biological Contributions 200 Years After His Death,'' Columbia University, New York, October 29th, 1999〕 The embryologist Caspar Friedrich Wolff famously refuted preformationism in 1759 in favor of epigenesis, though this did not sound the death knell of preformationist ideology.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=-ddVamDO-xcC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=epigenesis+controversy&source=web&ots=MqfgfvWLrA&sig=iiQYbdCyxLJOBGC-ou6O5x0hlrQ Ernst Mayr, ''This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World,'' p.11〕 ==See also== * Epigenetics 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Epigenesis (biology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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