Idea of The Bildungstrieb
Blumenbach was also influential in and made many contributions to the scientific debates of the last half of the 18th Century regarding evolution and creation, the very issue of life and a life force that concerned Romantic science and medicine. His central contribution was in the conception of a vis formativus or Bildungstrieb.
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