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Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law (1866)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: May 03, 2014
The biogenetic law is a theory of development and evolution proposed by Ernst Haeckel in Germany in the 1860s. It is one of several recapitulation…
EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyEmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
Karl Ernst von Baer's Laws of Embryology
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
In 1828, while working at the University of Konigsberg in Konigsberg, Germany Karl Ernst von Baer proposed four laws of animal development, which…
Baer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876EmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), by Stephen Jay Gould
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Oct 21, 2014
Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a book published in 1977, in which the author Stephen J. Gould, who worked in the US, tells a history of the theory of…
LiteratureEvolutionOntogenyEmbryologyMeckel, J. F. (Johann Friedrich), 1781-1833
Franz Julius Keibel (1861-1929)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Franz Keibel studied the embryos of humans and other animals in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. He lived and worked in several different…
Embryology
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Stephen Jay Gould studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century…
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)Spandrel beamsOntogenyPhylogenyFossils
The Origin of Species: "Chapter Thirteen: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs" (1859), by Charles R. Darwin
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jul 11, 2014
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs is the thirteenth chapter of Charles Darwin's book The Origin of…
LiteratureEvolutionEvolution (Biology)Natural selectionEmbryology