Multiple choice

Who proposed recapitulation theory?

  1. E. Haeckel

  2. Charles Robert Darwin

  3. Alfred Wallace

  4. Thomas Malthus
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Explanation

Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory (ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny) claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' entire evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

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