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Development of the Retinotectal Projection in the Chicken

Editors:

  1. Günter H. Rager

    1. Division of Entomology, Molecular Biology and Physiology Section, Göttingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 63)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Introduction

    • Günter H. Rager
    Pages 1-2

  3. Material and Methods

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    Pages 2-11

  4. Topogenesis and Morphogenesis

    • Günter H. Rager
    Pages 11-33

  5. Physiogenesis

    • Günter H. Rager
    Pages 33-40

  6. The Formation of the Retinotopic Map

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    Pages 41-63

  7. The Final Maturation of Retinal Ganglion Cells

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    Pages 63-82

  8. Summary

    • Günter H. Rager
    Pages 83-84

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 85-92
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Wilhelm His, one of the founders of developmental neurobiology, was convinced "that the processes of generation and development obey fundamental and simple laws and submit to the general laws of nature" (His 1901). Therefore, we should be able to find immediate conditions, dependencies and rules determining the de­ velopment of an organic form. With this in mind, His (1874) defined the task of embryology as follows: "Developmental biology is essentially a physiological science; it has not only to describe how each individual form develops from the egg, it has to derive this development in such a way that each developmental stage together with all its specialities appears as a necessary consequence of the immediately pre­ ceding stage . . . Only if developmental biology has given a perfect physiological deriva­ tion for any given form, has it the right to say that it has explained this individual form. " The ultimate aim of a physiological derivation would be that laws of growth valid for organic ,beings can be expressed as mathematical formulae (His 1874). To exemplify this, he formulated a universal and purely formal law of growth in mathematical terms making the comment: "I now suggest that the body form follows immediately from germinal growth and can be derived from the given germinal form according to the laws of growth. My interest is, therefore, firstly to detect the law of growth empirically and secondly to derive consecutive forms of the developing or­ ganism by applying this law.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Entomology, Molecular Biology and Physiology Section, Göttingen, Germany

    Günter H. Rager

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Development of the Retinotectal Projection in the Chicken

  • Editors: Günter H. Rager

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67681-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-10121-5Published: 01 October 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67681-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 92

  • Topics: Anatomy

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