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THERE has existed a need for a term to express the idea of the interaction of hereditary and environmental factors in producing the development of an organism. It must be a term to signify that the organism is the resultant of the integration of the two sets of factors. It must convey the idea that has been almost universally accepted by writers in the field of development that the organism is always ‘becoming something’ and ‘tending somewhither’, because it is a result of an interrelation between an environmental milieu and hereditary potentialities which together constitute the necessary materials and conditions to produce a living thing through their interaction. The term symphyogenetic development seems to be suitable for expressing this idea.
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CHASE, W. Symphyogenetic Development. Nature 144, 445 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144445b0
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