Heredity, differentiation, and other conceptions of biology: a consideration of Professor Karl Pearson’s paper ‘On the Principle of homotyposis.’

Abstract

Abstract In his paper on “Homotyposis,” of which an abstract appeared in the 'Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ vol. 68, p. 1, Professor Pearson raises an issue of extraordinary importance. In any attempt to perceive the true relation of variation to differentiation, and to analyse the essential similitude existing between Heredity and Repetition of Parts, we reach a fundamental problem of biology. Little has thus far been done towards elucidating this problem or even towards formulating it. The appearance of Professor Pearson’s remarkable memoir may perhaps therefore with profit be taken as an occasion for considering critically some aspects of these questions.

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