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Albert von Kölliker (born Rudolf Albert Kölliker; 6 July 1817Template:Snd2 November 1905) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and histologist.

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Heterogenesis

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In 1864 Kölliker revived Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's theory that evolution proceeds by large steps (saltationism), under the name of heterogenesis. Kölliker was a critic of Darwinism and rejected a universal common ancestor, instead he supported a theory of common descent along separate lines. According to Alexander Vucinich the non-Darwinian evolution theory of Kölliker tied "organic transformism to three general ideas, all contrary to Darwin's view: the multiple origin of living forms, the internal causes of variation, and "sudden leaps" (heterogenesis) in the evolutionary process."

Kölliker claimed that heterogenesis functioned according to a general law of evolutionary progress, orthogenesis.

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