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biogenetic law — n a theory of development much disputed in biology: an organism passes through successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual is a recapitulation of the phylogeny of… … Medical dictionary
biogenetic law — noun Date: 1882 the theory of ontogenetic recapitulation … New Collegiate Dictionary
biogenetic law — The recapitulation theory of Haeckel that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ; see palingenesis … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
biogenetic law — noun : recapitulation theory … Useful english dictionary
law — 1. A principle or rule. 2. A statement of fact detailing a sequence or relation of phenomena that is invariable under given conditions. SEE ALSO: principle, rule, theorem. [A.S. lagu] Alexander l. states that a jerky nystagmus becomes worse when… … Medical dictionary
biogeneticlaw — biogenetic law n. The theory that the stages in an organism s embryonic development and differentiation correspond to the stages of evolutionary development characteristic of the species. Also called Haeckel s law, recapitulation theory. * * * … Universalium
Embryo drawing — refers to any representation of the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization. In animals, the… … Wikipedia
Evolution — Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) The world of organisms comprises a great system of individual forms generally classified according to structural… … Catholic encyclopedia
Recapitulation theory — The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism and often expressed as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is a disproven hypothesis that in developing from embryo to adult, animals go through stages… … Wikipedia
Social Darwinism — is a term commonly used for theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870s, seeking to apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics.[1] It especially refers to notions of struggle for… … Wikipedia
