Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A believer in the doctrine of preformation.
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Examples
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Geoffroy Saint Hilaire's theories had broad appeal to those who saw the relevance of developmental embryology for issues of group relationship, an issue that preformationist Cuvier had ignored.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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One is the idea that informational models are preformationist.
Biological Information Godfrey-Smith, Peter 2007
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This is a preformationist view; but that Malebranche is not purely preformationist is clear from his comment here.
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Malebranche's account of heredity is actually a blend of preformationist and epigenetic views; in the Dialogues on Metaphysics he talks about all the bees that will ever exist pre-existing in the first bee.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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It's not impossible that the purely preformationist account is the right one, but the evidence - monstrous births and tulips plants from the bulb are more similar to the mother plant than plants from the seed - suggests a certain amount of epigenetic regulation.
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Malebranche thinks this is confirmed by mutations like the fruit-shaped miscarriages; although he allows that God might have set things up in a purely preformationist way.
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This is a preformationist view; but that Malebranche is not purely preformationist is clear from his comment here.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Malebranche thinks this is confirmed by mutations like the fruit-shaped miscarriages; although he allows that God might have set things up in a purely preformationist way.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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He is primarily preformationist, but he gives some credit to the epigenetic side as well.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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It's not impossible that the purely preformationist account is the right one, but the evidence - monstrous births and tulips plants from the bulb are more similar to the mother plant than plants from the seed - suggests a certain amount of epigenetic regulation.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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