Wilhelm Roux and his programme for developmental biology

1-3

Wilhelm Roux's treatise on "qualitative" mitoses

a "classic" by either definition

4-6

Wilhelm Roux on embryonic axes, sperm entry and the grey crescent

7-9

When seeing is believing

Wilhelm Roux's misconceived fate map

10-12

"Mosaic work" and "assimilating effects" in embryogenesis

Wilhelm Roux's conclusions after disabling frog blastomeres

13-15

Wilhelm Roux and the rest

developmental theories 1885–1895

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Laurent Chabry (1855–1893) and the "age d'or" of biology

19-22

The embryological œeuvre of Laurent Chabry

23-25

How to dart ascidian blastomeres

the embryological micro-tools of Laurent Chabry (1855–1893)

26-28

Shaking a concept

Hans Driesch and the varied fates of sea urchin blastomeres

29-31

Hans Driesch the critical mechanist

"Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung"

32-34

Hans Driesch's "Philosophy really ab ovo", or why to be a vitalist

35-37

Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine

work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910

38-40

Theodor Boveri on cytoplasmic organization in the sea urchin egg

41-43

Aneuploidy disrupts embryogenesis

Theodor Boveri's analysis of sea urchin dispermy

44-46

Reflections on method

Theodor Boveri's evaluation of "natural experiments" and their table-top simulation

47-49

Lessons from a queen's lost offspring

Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics

50-52

True alternatives

Boveri and Morgan arguing about the origins of honeybee gynanders

53-55

Of gradients and genes

developmental concepts of Theodor Boveri and his students

56-58

Yves Delage (1854–1920) and the ideology behind his research on fécondation

59-62

Eugene Bataillon (1864–1953) and traumatic parthenogenesis

63-65

Hilde Mangold (1898–1924) and Spemann's organizer

achievement and tragedy

66-75

An American in Paris and the origins of the stereomicroscope

76-83

Is ventral in insects dorsal in vertebrates?

84-93

Archives for developmental mechanics W. Roux, editor (1894–1924)

94-108