Ontogeny and phylogeny - Stephen Jay Gould
KORTE INHOUD
“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” was Haeckel’s answer―the wrong one―to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century.
"A distinguished and pioneering work." (Ernst Mayr)
"It is rare in deed to read a new book and recognize it for a classic... Gould has given biologists a new way to see the organisms they study. The result is a major achievement." (American Scientist)
"Gould's book - pervaded, I should say, with an erudition and felicity of style that make it a delight to read - is a radical work in every sense... It returns one's attention to the roots of our science - the questions about the great pageant of evolution, the marvelous diversity of form that our theory is...
"A distinguished and pioneering work." (Ernst Mayr)
"It is rare in deed to read a new book and recognize it for a classic... Gould has given biologists a new way to see the organisms they study. The result is a major achievement." (American Scientist)
"Gould's book - pervaded, I should say, with an erudition and felicity of style that make it a delight to read - is a radical work in every sense... It returns one's attention to the roots of our science - the questions about the great pageant of evolution, the marvelous diversity of form that our theory is...
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