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"Developmental" Quotes from Famous Books

... sexual products within the body of the diploid generation. Those who do not possess the necessary special knowledge are unable to realise what remains of the first haploid generation in a phanerogamic plant or in a vertebrate animal. In Angiosperms this is actually represented only by the short developmental stages which extend from the pollen mother-cells to the sperm-nucleus of the pollen-tube, and from the embryo-sac mother-cell to the egg and the endosperm tissue. The embryo-sac remains enclosed in the diploid ovule, and within this from the fertilised egg ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... has also objected that if the later organisms have proceeded from the earlier, the whole developmental series, from the simplest to the highest, could not now exist; in such a case the simpler ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... to the highest animal—to man himself. You might define the life of every one in exactly the same terms as those which I have now used; the difference between the highest and the lowest being simply in the complexity of the developmental changes, the variety of the structural forms, the diversity of the physiological functions which are ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... instruction, there should be so decided agreement in the reactions of the children—is, in my opinion, the best vindication of the principle of the tests that one could imagine, because this agreement demonstrates that the tests do actually reach and discover the general developmental conditions of intelligence (so far as these are operative in public-school children of the present cultural epoch), and not mere fragments of knowledge and attainments ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... of instruction, there should be so decided agreement in the reactions of the children—is, in my opinion, the best vindication of the principle of the tests that one could imagine, because this agreement demonstrates that the tests do actually reach and discover the general developmental conditions of intelligence (so far as these are operative in public-school children of the present cultural epoch), and not mere fragments of knowledge ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... of the different stages, the successive stages would be so remote from one another, such vast changes would necessarily remain unnoticed or unexplained that you would hardly believe that they could have any genetic relation or belong to one developmental series. ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler