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biogenetic law

noun

Definition of biogenetic law

: the theory of ontogenetic recapitulation

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 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, "‘The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel’ Review: The Zoologist as Artist," 13 Apr. 2018

First Known Use of biogenetic law

1874, in the meaning defined above

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biogenetic law

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Medical Definition of biogenetic law

: 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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