Trembley discovered the hydra and was the first to observe in it asexual reproduction, regeneration, and photosensitivity in an animal without eyes. His experiments were of great importance in the study of regeneratio…
In this preliminary to a larger work on regeneration which was never published, Spallanzani described regenerative capacities of remarkable complexity and repetitiveness in the land snail, salamander and toad and frog…
1987RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757); TREMBLEY, Abraham (1710 – 1784); BONNET, Charles (1720 – 1793); DAWSON, Virginia Parker (1943 – )