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Article: The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation. By Clara Pinto-Correia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 396 pages. Cloth, $29.95.
Reviewed by Joe A. Thomas, Ph.D., Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Department of Art, Clarion, PA 16214.
Before there was embryology, or genetics, or microbiology, there was preformation and epigenesis. As the two dominant theories of human generation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the debate between these contentious schools of thought was part of a long struggle to understand the mechanism of reproduction. As these ideas have given way to modern theories of embryology and biology, the earlier ...