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  1. Der Kampf um die autonomie Des lebens.Joachim Metallmann - 1939 - Acta Biotheoretica 5 (1):1-10.
    During the last thirty years, both the mechanism and the vitalism has undergone remarkable changes. While the former, persisting in the strictly mechanistic thesis, has grown independent of its ancient antiteleological attitude, the latter, overcome as the doctrine of “entelechy”, has turned out fruitful owing to its other component, i.e. to the idea of autonomy of life. To-day, then, the contention takes place between two totally different points of view, between “machinism” and “autonomism”. Both interpretations of life are equally theories, (...)
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  • Physiologische ganzheitskorrelationen in der morphologie Des autonomen systems.Albert Daan & Maria J. Daan-Stiemens - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (2):154-164.
    Certain problems about the autonomic nervous system — as f.i. those about the development of ortho- and parasympathetic system — have to be seen in the light of synthetic morphologic-functional considerations. As for the origin of the vegetative nervous elements, the phylogenetic dates show, how the theory of ectodermal descent is one-sided from functional synthetic point of view. Every intercellular function has her place. Therefore the principle of “holosynaptic toponomy” conditions the possibilities of morphological development of every tissue conducting stimuli. (...)
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  • Kausalität, finalität und ganzheit.Friedrich Alverdes - 1937 - Acta Biotheoretica 3 (3):167-180.
    There is an autonomy in life that contrasts with physico-chemical processes. It has its own biological causality. Each type of life has its teleological as well as causal side. The researches of biology should therefore be devoted to causality and teleology simultaneously, and not to one or other exclusively. Causal and teleological interpretations must not however be confused. Every life is a whole; in the organism all vital processes are integrated, and causality and teleology inherent in the whole. For the (...)
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  • Gedanken zur kritik der „anpassung” tierischer tiefseeformen.G. Von Kolosváry - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (1):25-32.
    The reduction of deep-see animals is a primordial phenomenon. Connected with this, compensatory transformations of self-preservation, not yet gotten to validity, make it possible for the organism, that while descending in homogeneous surroundings it may keep itself alive, maintaining its life in that last refuge. Reduction is a primordial automatical phenomenon, permanent dwelling in homogeneous surroundings is a secondary phenomenon.La réduction des animaux de la mer profonde est un phénomène primordial. En rapport avec cela, des transformations compensatoriques de conservation personelle, (...)
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