Ontogeny and Phylogeny“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” was Haeckel’s answer—the wrong one—to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. |
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... Baer's Laws 70 Evolution and the Mechanics of Recapitulation 74 Ernst Haeckel : Phylogeny as the Mechanical Cause of Ontogeny 76 The Mechanism of Recapitulation 78 The American Neo - Lamarckians : The Law of Acceleration as Evolution's ...
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Contents
Prospectus | 1 |
The Analogistic Tradition from Anaximander to Bonnet | 13 |
Transcendental Origins 17931860 | 33 |
Evolutionary Triumph 18591900 | 69 |
Pervasive Influence | 115 |
Decline Fall and Generalization | 167 |
Heterochrony and the Parallel of Ontogeny | 209 |
The Ecological and Evolutionary Significance | 267 |