Multiple choice

Which of the following scientists postulated ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?

  1. Herbert Spencer

  2. G. Stanley Hall

  3. Ernst Haeckel

  4. Jean Piaget

  5. Richard Owen
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Explanation

The theory of recapitulation, often expressed in Ernst Haeckel's phrase as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, is a largely discredited biological hypothesis that in developing from embryo to adult, animals go through stages resembling or representing successive stages in the evolution of their remote ancestors.

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