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Excerpt from Experimental Morphology
The problem which, since the time of Aristotle, has stood first in interest and importance among the great questions of Biology is that of the causes which direct the development of the individual - that marvellous process by which the germ is built up into the complex organism, by which the embryo clothes itself with the characters peculiar to its species, by which even minute individual traits of form and action are exactly reproduced in the offspring from its parents.
The burden of clearing up this problem has fallen, naturally enough, upon the shoulders of students of morphology. For since morphologists deal with form, they are properly especially concerned with the interpretation of form - they may well be asked to account for it. Thus the problem of development is an acknowledged morphological problem.
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