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单词 biogenetic law
释义

biogenetic law

noun

: the theory of ontogenetic recapitulation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Take Haeckel’s pet theory, the biogenetic law, which stipulates that the development of each embryo in utero echoes the evolution of its remote ancestors. Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

biogenetic law

noun

: 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 the group
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