He identified four means of reproduction, including the abiogenetic origin of life from nonliving mud, a belief held by Greeks of that time. Other modes of reproduction recognized by him included budding (asexual reproduction), sexual reproduction without copulation, and sexual reproduction with copulation.
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The essence of this theory is that the male sperm, with a haematogenous origin, causes the development of an embryo from menstrual blood present in the female ...
This paper challenges the theories that Aristotle takes plants and animals to reproduce for the sake of attenuated immortality, and that he believes survival to ...
Jul 7, 2016 · The theory held that an embryo is a miniature version of an adult organism, and that the adult emerges as the embryo gets bigger. By the ...
Oct 2, 2010 · The reproductive role that Aristotle ascribed to the female, who contributes only the material for the offspring and influences the form only ...
Apr 29, 1982 · I shall argue that the function of the reproductive capacity is not to perpetuate the kind (or species), but to allow the individual reproducer ...
Aristotle posits that, in sexual reproduction, the male and female are both necessary, which is a correct statement under modern explanations of sexual ...