An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

GEGENBAUR, Karl

2 entries
  • 486

Ueber den Bau und die Entwickelung der Wirbelthier-Eier mit partieller Dottertheilung.

Arch. Anat. Physiol wiss. Med., 491-529, 1861.

Proof that the ovum is unicellular in all vertebrates.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 337

Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1870.

Gegenbaur’s best work. He stressed the value of comparative anatomy as the basis of the study of descent, considering that knowledge of the relations of corresponding parts in different animals was more important even than comparative embryology in this respect.



Subjects: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, EVOLUTION