The elephant and the mermaid.(research on elephant embryos)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 15, 1999 | Copyright information

IN 1865, a German biologist called Ernst Haeckel came up with a new twist on the recently invented theory of evolution. The embryos of animals, he reckoned, experienced a process that he called ``recapitulation''. This caused them to pass through stages in which they resembled their evolutionary ancestors. So the embryo of a mammal started off looking like the embryo of a fish, before turning successively into something like that of an amphibian and then a reptile--and only late...

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