The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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DUALISM: the belief in the existence of two entirely distinct principles (such as matter and spirit). DYSTELEOLOGY: the science of those features in organisms which refute the "design-argument." ECTODERM: the outer (ekto) layer of the embryo. ENTODERM: the inner (ento) layer of the embryo. EPIDERM: the outer layer of the skin. EPIGENESIS: the theory of gradual development of organs in the embryo. EPIPHYSIS: the third or central eye in the early vertebrates. EPISOMA: see SOMA. EPITHELIA: tissues covering the surface of parts of the body (such as the mouth, etc.) GONADS: the sexual glands. GONOCHORISM: separation of the male and female sexes. GONOTOMES: sections of the sexual glands. GYNECOMAST: a male with the breasts (masta) of a woman (gyne). |
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