Erich Blechschmidt was an anatomist and embryologist who worked for
more than forty years on the problem of human form and the way that
form arises in the course of ontogeny, principally during the first
eight weeks or so after conception. He has provided us with more
than 120 scientific papers and numerous books concerning the
development of human form and function. One unique aspect of
Blechschmidt's research is that it concentrates on the evidence
presented by the human embryo itself, in the form of a
comprehensive collection of about 200,000 serial sections of
embryos at different ages and sixty-four enlarged total
reconstructions at the University of Guttingen (The Blechschmidt
Collection and Museum). The sustained investigation of this wealth
of material led to a totally new way of looking at early human
development, which compels us to re-think older interpretations
based mainly on phylogenetic or molecular biological studies. It is
possible to see how adult functions arise naturally and
consistently from the embryo's earlier growth functions. This
present book is a condensation of many of these findings and a
presentation of the new viewpoint.
-Brian Freeman, Ph.D. Anatomy, UNSW, from the Preface
"Erich Blechschmidt profoundly reaches through the doorway of the
most sacred and the most scientific."
-James Jealous, D.O.
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