Driesch

/ driːʃ /

noun

1. DrieschHans Adolf Eduard18671941MGermanSCIENCE: zoologistSCIENCE: embryologist Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

Example Sentences

As biologists studied the ways some organisms seemed to temporarily resist entropy — staving off otherwise inevitable dissolution by conserving energy — they began to wonder if Maxwell’s miniature creature wasn’t hard at work in the interstices of the body, maintaining the equipoise of their very cells: Maxwell’s “demons exist: we are them,” wrote the biologist Hans Driesch.

From Washington Post

She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times

If, for instance, as H. Driesch and Hertwig have argued, much of the differentiation of cells and tissues is a function of locality and is due to the action of different external forces on similar material, then just so much burden is removed from what evolutionists have to explain.

From Project Gutenberg

Driesch and Morgan by removing part of the cytoplasm from a fertilized egg of the ctenophore, Beroe, produced imperfect larvae showing certain defects which represent the parts removed.

From Project Gutenberg

As Driesch puts it: "The relative position of a blastomere in the whole determines in general what develops from it; if its position be changed, it gives rise to something different; in other words, its prospective value is a function of its position."

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