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He was greatly impressed with this fact, which, as a convinced believer in epigenesis, he used with great effect against the preformistic theories.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Hertwig interprets this fact of the specific distinctness of closely allied embryos in the light of the preformistic conception of heredity.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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