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Hans Spemann on Vitalism in Biology: Translation of a Portion of Spemann's Autobiography

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Hamburger, V. Hans Spemann on Vitalism in Biology: Translation of a Portion of Spemann's Autobiography. Journal of the History of Biology 32, 231–243 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004659911795

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