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Although Earth had been displaced from the center of the material universe by Copernicus in the fifteenth century, man had remained at the apex of the biological realm. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, many biological scientists, including most physiologists, believed that they were not just trying to explain how nature worked, but that they had a higher mission: to reveal God’s design in nature. This position radically changed as the century advanced.
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Lutz, P.L. (2002). Evolution and Physiology. In: The Rise of Experimental Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-163-3_18
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