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About Paul Wintrebert
- Paul Wintrebert (1867–1966) was a French embryologist and a theoretician of developmental biology. He coined the term cytoskeleton (cytosquelette) in 1931.He held radical epigenetic views.
- In his 60s, he published a trilogy in which he describes his position on life process and living being: Le vivant créateur de son évolution (The living being is the creator of his own evolution) (1962), Le développement du vivant par lui-même (The self-development of the living being) (1963), and L'existence délivrée de l'existentialisme (Existence delivered from existentialism) (1965).He was a critic of the mutationist theory of evolution.
- His views have been described as a "biochemical Lamarckism".
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