Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch | |
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| Born | 28 October 1867 |
| Died | 17 April 1941 (aged 73) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Known for | Developmental biology Neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy Lebensphilosophie[1] Equifinality |
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| Fields | Biology and philosophy |
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also been credited with performing the first artificial 'cloning' of an animal in the 1880s, although this claim is dependent on how one defines cloning.[2]
- ^ Thurnher, Rainer, Röd, Wolfgang and Schmidinger, Heinrich, Die Philosophie des ausgehenden 19. und des 20. Jahrhunderts: Lebensphilosophie und Existenzphilosphie, C.H.Beck, 2002, p. 378.
- ^ Bellomo, Michael (2006). The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time. Amacom. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-8144-0881-0.
. . . the popular meaning of the term 'clone' is an identical copy that has been created by some conscious design. Under this definition, the first artificially created clone was made in 1885 . . . [Footnote:] Depending on the definition used, one could argue that the experiments carried out by Hans Driesch and Hans Spemmann were not instances of true cloning, but artificial twinning.