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Dollo's law

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Dol·​lo's law | \ ˈdä(ˌ)lōz-\

Definition of Dollo's law

: a generalization in biology: characters lost in the course of evolution are never regained in the original form

History and Etymology for Dollo's law

after Louis Dollo †1931 Belgian paleontologist

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