• DOI:10.1007/S10739-005-3058-Y
Corpus ID: 85671523

Aristotle on the Mechanism of Inheritance

@article{Henry2006AristotleOT,
  title={Aristotle on the Mechanism of Inheritance},
  author={D. Henry},
  journal={Journal of the History of Biology},
  year={2006},
  volume={39},
  pages={425-455}
}

D. Henry

Published 2006

Biology

Journal of the History of Biology

In this paper I address an important question in Aristotle’s biology, What are the causal mechanisms behind the transmission of biological form? Aristotle’s answer to this question, I argue, is found in Generation of Animals Book 4 in connection with his investigation into the phenomenon of inheritance. There we are told that an organism’s reproductive material contains a set of “movements'' which are derived from the various “potentials'' of its nature (the internal principle of change that… CONTINUE READING

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