On the Origin of Form: Evolution by Self-Organization
On the Origin of Form presents a new account of evolution and the origin of life based on the premise that the body form of any species is encoded not in the DNA but in the patterned structure of the primordial germ plasm—the universal predecessor of the egg.\ Two hundred years after Johann von Goethe’s Faustian quest for the Urform, the archetypal design underlying all living form, comes the recent discovery that organic forms are derived from a unique, self-organized, pre-embryonic...
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On the Origin of Form presents a new account of evolution and the origin of life based on the premise that the body form of any species is encoded not in the DNA but in the patterned structure of the primordial germ plasm—the universal predecessor of the egg. Two hundred years after Johann von Goethe’s Faustian quest for the Urform, the archetypal design underlying all living form, comes the recent discovery that organic forms are derived from a unique, self-organized, pre-embryonic structure. This explanation of evolution is an alternative to the now widely questioned Neo-Darwinist theory of natural selection of random mutations. This new model is based on known, relatively uncomplicated scientific principles and is easily accessible to the interested layman. Included are sixty-four pages of illustrations that support this new theory. For additional information, please visit www.ontheoriginofform.com.
List of PlatesAuthors NoteRoad MapPreface Mark A. S. McMenamin McMenamin, Mark A. S.I Self-Organization and Natural SelectionIntroductionPhenomena Relative to Organic Self-OrganizationOn Stephen Jay Gould's Ontogeny and PhylogenyExtra-Scientific Phenomena: Acupuncture Meridians and Bio-Energy FieldsThe Periodic Table of the Elements Beyond CoincidenceII The Self-Organization of Biological FormThe Self-Organization of Biological FormIII Plates, Related Papers, and PublicationsAfterword Richard Milner Milner, Richard"Neoteny and Heterochrony" Stuart Pivar Pivar, Stuart"Retardation and Neoteny in Human Evolution: The Seeds of Neoteny" Stephen Jay Gould Gould, Stephen Jay"The Biology of Belief" Bruce H. Lipton Lipton, Bruce H."From Sphere to Torus: A Topological View of the Metazoan Body Plan" Harald Jockusch Jockusch, Harald Andreas Dress Dress, Andreas"A Gene Regulatory Network Subcircuit Drives a Dynamic Pattern of Gene Expression" J. Smith Smith, J. C. Theodoris Theodoris, C. E. H. Davidson Davidson, E. H."Topological Patterns in Metazoan Evolution and Development" V. Isaeva Isaeva, V. E. Presnov Presnov, E. A. Chernyshev Chernyshev, A."Broken Symmetries and Biological Patterns" Ian Stewart Stewart, Ian"Self-Organization vs, Gene Regulation" Kathy Hall Hall, Kathy Richard Milner Milner, Richard Stuart Pivar Pivar, Stuart"Gregor Mendel, Thomas Henry Huxley, and the Acceptance of New Scientific Theories" Richard Milner Milner, RichardTimelineGlossaryIndex
