ARCHETYPE (biology)

ARCHETYPE (from the Greek archetypon prone image), according to the idealistic. ideas, in the primary type (prototype) of the structure, which underlies the really existing qi forms of organisms. The concept of A. was put forward by Tho R. Owen (1846) on the basis of his study of the skeleton of vertebrates. Historically, it is associated with ideas about the unity of the plan of the structure of organisms and about the existence of a prototype of plants (progenitor) and animals (protoanimal), which AR was proposed by J. W. Goethe back in con. 18th century and most fully developed by E. Geoffroy str Saint-Hilaire (30s of the 19th century). The concept of Owen's dy, based on a comparison of gi of common features inherent in the skeleton of flax decomp. vertebrates, is a generalized scheme of the ideal type of skeleton, which is based on a repeatedly repeated vertebra, realized 1 not to the same extent in extinct and modern. organisms.
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