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ANIMALS rudiments already preformed. This belief could not continue to exist after Caspar Wolff's brilliant researches proved that adult structures arise gradually from apparently undifferentiated material ; that is, development is epigenetic. Epigenesis, however, does not explain development; it simply maintains that it occurs.
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