"Oogenesis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discussion[326] of the theoretical questions involved. In this considered and authoritative judgment he completely disposed of Serres' theories of the unity of plan and the unity of genetic formation. Except in the very earliest stages of oogenesis there is no real similarity between the development of a Zoophyte, a Mollusc, an Articulate and a Vertebrate, but each is stamped from the beginning with the characteristics of its type. The lower animals are not, and cannot possibly be the permanent embryos ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell |
