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Driesch

British  
/ driːʃ /

noun

  1. Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

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She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2018

Everywhere Widow Driesch heard people talking about the good season.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

The labours of Roux, as well as the valuable researches of Driesch, induced me to carry out a series of experiments with the object of getting a surer basis for my epigenetic conception of development.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

As Driesch says, “It is not a restoration starting from the wound, it is a substitution starting from a different place.”

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Driesch started from the mechanical theory of life and advanced through the connected series of his own biological essays to vitalism.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

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