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Recapitulation theory: Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings.
 
 
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Haeckel's Law of Recapitulation Summary
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German zoologist Ernst Haeckel famously—and inaccurately—uttered, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." While investigating the developing embryos of a variety of vertebrates, Haeckel thought they all closely resembled one...
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny Summary
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Ontogeny refers to the development of an organism. With humans, ontogeny begins with the fertilized egg and continues through embryonic and fetal development, birth, maturation, and ultimately senescence. Clearly, many developmental phenomena in humans...
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Biogenetic Law Summary
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The biogenetic law is also known as the recapitulation theory, or the law of recapitulation. The biogenetic law is epitomized in Ernst Haeckel's (1834-1919) phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." However, the biogentic law is based on the law of...
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The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law, embryological parallelism or ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, is a theory in biology which attempts to explain apparent similarities between humans and other animals. First espoused in 1866...


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