Crossword-Solution: EIMER 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The latter view under the name of "Orthogenesis," devised I believe by Eimer, at the present day commends itself to some naturalists.

Herbert Spencer, Theodor Eimer, Lester Ward, Hering, and Zehnder have pointed out the untenable consequences of this position.

The theory of orthogenesis propounded by Naegeli and Eimer, now gaining much ground, holds that evolution takes place in direct lines of progressive modification, and is not the result of apparent chance.

The theory of "orthogenesis," proposed by Naegeli and Eimer, makes the latter assumption; and it has found a considerable number of adherents among recent biological investigators, including some of our own colleagues, who have made important contributions to the investigation of this fundamental question.

Wagner tried to supplement natural selection with his "Law of Migration," and that later on, Romanes and Gulick endeavored to supply the evident deficiencies in Darwin's theory, by invoking other principles; and that even at that time, Askenasy, Braun, and Naegeli--and more recently, the lately deceased Eimer--insisted on the fact of definitely ordered variations, in opposition to the theory of Selection.