- sedentary bird
- segregation distortion
- selection
- selection pressure
- selective value
- selecton
- self
- self-adaptation
- self-alteration
- self-concept
- self-construction
- self-creation
- self-decomposition
- self-development
- self-differentiation
- self-expression
- self-feeling
- self-formation
- self-generation
- self-limitation
- self-motion
Result of Your Query
self-constructionSelbstaufbau (ger.)
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The capacity of living beings to build up their own body.
- 1817
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sensation itself is but vision nascent, not the cause of intelligence, but intelligence itself revealed as an earlier power in the process of self-constructionColeridge, S.T. (1817). Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My literary Life and Opinions, vol. 1: 274f.
- 1858
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[the plant’s] power of direct self-constructionMacvicar, J.G. (1858). Vegetable morphology – its general principles. Transactions of the Botanical Society 5, 401-418: 410.
- 1863
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This power of self-construction is peculiar to matter which is alive, and there is no living thing in which it is not manifested; but there is no other force in nature which can be compared to it
Beale, L.S. (1863). On nutrition. Medical Times and Gazette 1, 220-222: 221. - 1898
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Epigenesis mit ewigem ontogenetischem Selbstaufbau oder vielmehr SelbstwiederaufbauHirth, G. (1898). Energetische Epigenesis und epigene Energieformen insbesondere Merksysteme und plastische Spiegelungen: 79.
- 1926
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Selbstabbau und SelbstaufbauPikler, J.J. (1926). Das subjektive (praktische) und das objektive (theoretische) Kriterium des Lebens. Zeitschrift für Konstitutionslehre 12, 1-49: 21.
- 1928
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durch Selbstzerfall (Selbstaufbau) [kann] die Zone Κ [des Körpers] mit der Zone M [des Mediums] in kontinuierlicher Wechselbeziehung stehen […], ohne die absolute Gegensinnigkeit zu ihr zu relativieren
Plessner, H. (1928). Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch (Berlin 1975): 197.