Tag: Étienne Reynaud Augustin Serres
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Of Embryos and Transmutation. Part II – Malformations and Abortions
By Robbert Striekwold Theories of recapitulation arose in the late 18th but came to full bloom in the early 19th century. The common feature of such theories was the idea of a strong relationship between embryonic and species development. Such views were popular especially among the German Naturphilosophen, whose worldviews proved highly conductive to recapitulationist…