HIT: help with a word

[Art Wolinsky <awolinsky@OII.ORG>]

At 01:38 PM 8/31/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello
>I'm wondering if anyone who has access to the OED  or other source could
>look up the word
>Humunculation
> which appears in a book by Erdich  that one of our faculty is reading.
>I've exhausted all sources to which I've got access and can find nothing.
>
>Cheers, Lisa

Hi Lisa,

It has been about 35 years since I heard that term used in an Organic
Evolution class I had in college. (Oops, I dated myself).  I'm amazed that
I remember it.  I don't have a book source, but I can give the you the
definition of the word as I remember it.  The Humunculus Theory goes back
to the days before the knowledge of cells, specifically the sperm cell.  It
refers to a reproductive theory in which life springs from a humunculus
contained in sperm.  The humunculus was supposed to be a fully formed
individual in the sperm, too small to be seem with any known instruments.
Humunculation would be the process from which a human being grows from the
humunculus.

Does that make any sense within the context of its use in the Erdich book?

Take care,
Art


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