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1Universität Greifswald, Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Greifswald, Germany.
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Rupert Riedl showed in his "Order in Living Organisms" that morphology can produce law statements and is, therefore, a proper, that is, nomothetic, science. Furthermore, he coined useful terms (interphene and metaphene) and concepts (burden, cadre and minimal homology). Notwithstanding certain flaws-he used "laws in evolution" and "verification of a theory" although claiming to be in accordance with Popper's hypothetico-deductivism-and an almost complete absence of synecological relationships in his evolutionary explanations, his scientific legacy still forms a basis of a "logic of morphology" and an "evolutionary morphology," especially through the works of his students.
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