Paul Wintrebert (1867–1966) was a French

embryologist Embryology (from Greek ἔμβρυον, ''embryon'', "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, '' -logia'') is the branch of animal biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes (sex cells), fertilization, and development of embryos and ...

and a theoretician of

developmental biology Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of Regeneration (biology), regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and di ...

. He coined the term cytoskeleton (''cytosquelette'') in 1931. He held radical

epigenetic In biology, epigenetics is the study of stable phenotypic changes (known as ''marks'') that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix '' epi-'' ( "over, outside of, around") in ''epigenetics'' implies features that are "o ...

views. In his 60s, he published a trilogy in which he describes his position on life process and living being: ''Le vivant créateur de son évolution'' (The living being is the creator of his own evolution) (1962), ''Le développement du vivant par lui-même'' (The self-development of the living being) (1963), and ''L'existence délivrée de l'existentialisme'' (Existence delivered from existentialism) (1965). He was a critic of the mutationist theory of evolution. His views have been described as a "biochemical Lamarckism". "Papers presented at a conference on problems of reduction in biology, held in Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, Sept. 9-16, 1972."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wintrebert, Paul 1867 births 1966 deaths French embryologists French biologists Lamarckism