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| Preface to the 2009 Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Unsolved Problems of Biology | |
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| The background of success | |
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| The problems of morphogenesis | |
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| Behavior | |
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| Evolution | |
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| The origin of life | |
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| Minds | |
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| Parapsychology | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Three Theories of Morphogenesis | |
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| Descriptive and experimental research | |
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| Mechanism | |
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| Vitalism | |
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| Organicism | |
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| The Causes of Form | |
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| The problem of form | |
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| Form and energy | |
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| The structures of crystals | |
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| The structures of proreins | |
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| Formative causation | |
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| Morphogenetic Fields | |
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| Morphogeneric germs | |
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| Chemical morphogenesis | |
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| Morphogeneric fields as �probability structures� | |
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| Probabilistic processes in biological morphogenesis | |
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| Morphogeneric germs in biological sysrems | |
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| The Influence of Past Forms | |
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| The constancy and repetition of forms | |
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| The general possibility of trans-temporal causal connections | |
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| Morphic resonance | |
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| The influence of the post | |
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| Implications of an attenuated morphic resonance | |
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| An experimental test with crystals | |
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| Formative Causation and Morphogenesis | |
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| Sequential morphogeneses | |
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| The polarity of morphogenetic fields | |
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| The size of morphogenetic fields | |
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| The increasing specificity of morphic resonance during morphogenesis | |
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| The maintenance and stability of forms | |
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| A note on physical �dualism� | |
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| A summary of the hypothesis of formative causation | |
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| The Inheritance of Form | |
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| Genetics and heredity | |
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| Alrered morphogenetic germs | |
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| Altered pathways of morphogenesis | |
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| Dominance | |
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| Family resemblances | |
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| Environmental influences and morphic resonance | |
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| The inheritance of acquired characteristics | |
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| Epigeneric inheritance | |
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| Experiments with phenocopies | |
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| The Evolution of Biological Forms | |
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| The neo-Darwinian theory of evoiution | |
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| Mutations | |
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| The divergence of chreodes | |
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| The suppression of chreodes | |
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| The repetition of chreodes | |
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| The influence of other species | |
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| The origin of new forms | |
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| Movements and behavioral fields | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The movements of plants | |
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| Amoeboid movement | |
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| The repetitive morphogenesis of specialized structures | |
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| Nervous systems | |
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| Morphogenetic fields, motor fields, and behavioral fields | |
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| Behavioral fields and the senses | |
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| Regulation and regeneration | |
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| Morphic fields | |
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| Instinct And Learning | |
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| The influence of past actions | |
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| Instinct | |
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| Sign stimuli | |
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| Learning | |
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| Innate tendencies to learn | |
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| The Inheritance and Evolution of Behavior | |
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| The inheritance of behavior | |
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| Morphic resonance and behavior: on experimental test | |
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| The evolution of behavior | |
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| Human behavior | |
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| Four Possible Conclusions | |
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| The hypothesis of formative causation | |
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| Modified material ism | |
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| The conscious self | |
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| The creative universe | |
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| Transcendenr reality | |
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| New Tests for Morphic Resonance | |
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| Bose-Einstein condensates | |
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| Melting poinrs | |
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| Crystal transformations | |
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| Adaptations in cell cultures | |
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| Heat tolerance in plants | |
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| The transmission of aversion | |
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| The evolution of animal behavior | |
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| Collective human memory | |
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| Improving human performance | |
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| Resonant computers | |
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| Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order-A Dialogue with David Bohm | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |