ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides key clues to the proposed account. It discusses Cecilia Bognon-Kuss and Charles Wolfe assert that “biology as a science of the functioning and development of living bodies emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century, integrating methodological or empirical advances in various disciplines, namely physiology, embryology, comparative anatomy, natural history, and medicine.” The book deals with problems that are simultaneously biological and philosophical. It shows intense interest among eighteenth-century scientists in the topics of reproduction and development, transformation, and the relations of organisms to their external environments. It gives glimpses into where we might start in looking for trends, lines of inquiry concerning the shifting relations between philosophy and biology. The book shows their historical actors treating fundamentally ontological questions.
