Form and Function¶
Russell, E. S. (1916). Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology.
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- Theme And Variation
- Music to biology: the morphological tradition that treated species as variations on a shared form under continuous transformation ported the musical variation grammar directly into evolutionary morphology, reading horse, bat, whale, and human as one tetrapod theme under different transformations rather than as unrelated designs.
This sourceHistory of the morphological tradition (Goethe, Geoffroy, Owen) that read species as variations on a shared archetype under continuous transformation — the conceptual port of variation thinking into biology.
- Music to biology: the morphological tradition that treated species as variations on a shared form under continuous transformation ported the musical variation grammar directly into evolutionary morphology, reading horse, bat, whale, and human as one tetrapod theme under different transformations rather than as unrelated designs.
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