Ontogeny and phylogeny
Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
""Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer -- the wrong one -- to the most vexing quesiton of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineaages (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 appearance among the pre-Socratics to its demise in the early twentieth century. Turning to modern concepts, Gould demonstrates that, even though the whole subject of parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny fell into disrepute, it is still one of the great themes of evolutionary biology."-- back cover
Print Book, English, 1977
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977