Morphogenetic fields—coordinating fields that bring forth biological patterns and underlie regeneration—were first proposed in the 1920s and explain phenomena like salamander eye regeneration, where the lens regenerates from the iris (which is not how the lens normally forms in embryos), indicating that fields coordinate the modification of one structure to restore a missing function.
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Rupert SheldrakeEvidence Quote
“the hydromorphic genetic Fields first put forward in 1920s um was exactly that of a coordinating field that that brings forth these patterns and underlies regeneration and so for example in in the Regeneration of salamanderers so-called wolfian regeneration you cut out the lens of the eye of a new Taurus salamander and it will regenerate new lands from the edge of the iris which is not how the lens forms in the embryo”
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