Archetypes of Sex

Preface by the author

1  Influences: Science in transition
1.1  From a static to a dynamic world view
1.2  Schleiden and Schwann cell theory
1.3  Theory of evolution by Darwin and Wallace
1.4  German natural philosophy and idealistic morphology
1.5  Pringsheim's approach to research

2  Career:
The life of Nathanael Pringsheim
2.1  Childhood: Difficult school years together with Ferdinand Lassalle
2.2  Study, important teachers, and struggle for the doctorate
    2.2.1  From philosophy to medicine to botany
    2.2.2  The struggle for promotion
2.3  Political activities: March 1848
2.4  Scientific and personal achievements
2.5  Founder of one of the first botanical institutes
2.6  The last years in Berlin
2.7  Other founder activities
    2.7.1  Yearbooks for Scientific Botany
    2.7.2  German Botanical Society
    2.7.3  Reports of the German Botanical Society
2.8  Other members of the Pringsheim family
    2.8.1  The chemist Albert Ladenburg
    2.8.2  The physicists in the Pringsheim family
    2.8.3  The mathematician Alfred Pringsheim
    2.8.4  The biologist Ernst Georg Pringsheim
    2.8.5  Victims of the Nazi regime

3  Scientific work:
Archetypes of sexuality
3.1  Origins of sexuality in biology
3.2  Sexuality of plants
    3.2.1  Higher plants