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| Title | The History of Creation Vol 2 |
| Author | Haeckel, Ernst |
| Asset Number | 00607 |
| Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. |
| ISBN | |
| Published Date | 1883 |
| Edition | 3 |
| Printing | 1 |
| Description | Black cloth hardcover. Bindings tight.
THE HISTORY OF CREATION:
OR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND ITS
INHABITANTS BY THE ACTION OF NATURAL CAUSES.
A POPULAR EXPOSITION Of THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION IN GENERAL, AND OF THAT OF
DARWIN, GOETHE, AND LAMARCK IN PARTICULAR.
FROM THE GERMAN OF ERNST HAECKEL,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA.
THE TRANSLATION REVISED B E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S., FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD.
The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism-often expressed using Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"- is a historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo of an animal, from fertilization to gestation or hatching (ontogeny), goes through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the animal's remote ancestors (phylogeny). It was formulated in the 1820s by Etienne Serres based on the work of Johann Friedrich Meckel, after whom it is also known as Meckel-Serres law.
Biologist Ernst Haeckel's suggestion in 1870 that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of mankind caused the hypothesis to move beyond the scope of geology and zoogeography, ensuring its popularity outside of the framework of the scientific community.
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| Category | Life Science |
| Epoch | Victorian/Edwardian |
| Date Acquired | 09/04/2023 |
| Condition | (3) Good |
