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Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's
Theory of Morphogenesis:
What is Morphogenesis?
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Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Dr. Sheldrake's lecture, "The Biology Of Transformation: The Field," which might be viewed on Youtube.
“Morphogenesis” means “the coming into being of form.” “Morphe” means “form,” “genesis” means “coming into being.” Morphogenesis is the way animals and plants, all living organisms, or even crystals, have forms that come into being – they weren’t there before, [but] after a formative process, they are there now: more structure comes from less.
Editor’s note: To restate: “Morphogenesis” is a term for the theory, the general area of enquiry, concerning how plants and animals, all living organisms, and even crystals, acquire their shapes.
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