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Recapitulation theory
About: Recapitulation theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 132 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9917 citations. The topic is also known as: theory of recapitulation & biogenetic law.
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Abstract: * *1. Prospectus * Part I: Recapitulation *2. The Analogistic Tradition from Anaximander to Bonnet * The Seeds of Recapitulation in Greek Science? * Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Conflict of "Evolution" and Epigenesis: The Idyll of Charles Bonnet * Appendix: The Revolution in "Evolution" *3. Transcendental Origins, 1793--1860 * Naturphilosophie: An Expression of Developmentalism * Two Leading Recapitulationists among the Naturphilosophen: Oken and Meckel * Oken's Classification of Animals Linear Additions of Organs * J. F. Meckel's Sober Statement of the Same Principles * Serres and the French Transcendentalists * Recapitulation and the Theory of Developmental Arrests * Von Baer's Critique of Recapitulation * The Direction of Development and Classification of Animals * Von Baer and Naturphilosophie: What Is the Universal Direction of Development? * Louis Agassiz and the Threefold Parallelism *4. Evolutionary Triumph, 1859--1900 * Evolutionary Theory and Zoological Practice * Darwin and the Evolution of Von Baer' Laws * Evolution and the Mechanics of Recapitulation * Ernst Haeckel: Phylogeny as the Mechanical Cause of Ontogeny * The Mechanism of Recapitulation * The American Neo-Lamarckians: The Law of Acceleration as Evolution's Motor * Progressive Evolution by Acceleration * The Extent of Parallelism * Why Does Recapitulation Dominate the History of Life? * Alpheus Hyatt and Universal Acceleration * Lamarckism and the Memory Analogy * Recapitulation and Darwinism * Appendix: The Evolutionary Translation of von Baer's Laws *5. Pervasive Influence * Criminal Anthropology * Racism * Child Development * Primary Education * Freudian Psychoanalysis * Epilogue *6. Decline, Fall, and Generalization * A Clever Argument * An Empirical Critique * Organs or Ancestors: The Transformation of Haeckel's Heterochrony * Interpolations into Juvenile Stages * Introduction of Juvenile Features into the Adults of Descendants * What Had Become of von Baer's Critique? * Benign Neglect: Recapitulation and the Rise of Experimental Embryology * The Prior Assumptions of Recapitulation * Wilhelm His and His Physiological Embryology: A Preliminary Skirmish * Roux's Entwicklungsmechanik and the Biogenetic Low * Recapitulation and Substantive Issues in Experimental Embryology: The New Preformationism * Mendel's Resurrection, Haeckel's Fall, and the Generalization of Recapitulation * Part II: Heterocrony and Paedomorphosis *7. Heterochrony and the Parallel of Ontogeny and Phylogeny * Acceleration and Retardation * Confusion in and after Haeckel's Wake * Guidelines for a Resolution * The Reduction of de Beer's Categories of Heterochrony to Acceleration and Retardation * A Historical Paradox: The Supposed Dominance of Recapitulation * Dissociability and Heterochrony * Correlation and Disociability * Dissociation of the Three Processes * A Metric for Dissociation * Temporal Shift as a Mechanism of Dissociation * A Clock Model of Heterochrony * Appendix: A Note on the Multivariate Representation of Dissociation *8. The Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Heterochrony * The Argument from Frequency * The Importance of Recapitulation * The Importance of Heterochronic Change: Selected Cases * Frequency of Paedomorphosis in the Origin of Higher Taxa * A Critique of the Classical Significance of Heterochrony * The Classical Arguments * Retrospective and Immediate Significance * Heterochrony, Ecology, and Life-History Strategies * The Potential Ease and Rapidity of Heterochronic Change * The Control of Metamorphosis in Insects * Amphibian Paedomorphosis and the Thyroid Gland *9. Progenesis and Neoteny Insect Progenesis * Prothetely and Metathetely * Paedogenesis (Parthenogenetic Progenesis) in Gall Midges and Beetles * Progenesis in Wingless, Parthenogenetic Aphids * Additional Cases of Progenesis with a Similar Ecological Basis * Neotenic Solitary Locusts: Are They an Exception to the Rule? * Amphibian Neoteny * The Ecological Determinants of Progenesis * Unstable Environments * Colonization * Parasites * Male Dispersal * Progenesis as an Adaptive Response to Pressures for Small Size * The Role of Heterochrony in Macroevolution: Contrasting Flexibilities for Progenesis and Neoteny * Progenesis * Neoteny * The Social Correlates of Neoteny in Higher Vertebrates *10. Retardation and Neoteny in Human Evolution * The Seeds of Neoteny * The Fetalization Theory of Louis Bolk * Bolk's Data * Bolk's Interpretation * Bolk's Evolutionary Theory * A Tradition of Argument * Retardation in Human Evolution * Morphology in the Matrix of Retardation * Of Enumeration * Of Prototypes * Of Correlation * The Adaptive Significance of Retarded Development *11. Epilogue * Notes * Bibliography * Glossary * Index
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15 Jun 1996
TL;DR: In "The Shape of Life", Raff analyzes the rise of this experimental discipline and lays out research questions, hypotheses and approaches to guide its development.
Abstract: In the book, "Embryos, Genes, and Evolution", Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In "The Shape of Life", Raff analyzes the rise of this experimental discipline and lays out research questions, hypotheses and approaches to guide its development. Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms. Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative and functional biology. This synthesis should interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists and geneticists.
1,192 citations
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17 Dec 1980
TL;DR: The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited Revisited Garland E. Allen Hypotheses That Blur and Grow Hampton L. Carson Embryology Introduction William B. Provine The Evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory C.D. Darlington Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection.
Abstract: Preface, 1998 Preface to the Original Edition Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernst Mayr Part One: Different Biological Disciplines and the Synthesis Genetics Introduction William B. Provine Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis Richard C. Lewontin Cytology Introduction William B. Provine The Evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory C.D. Darlington Cytology in the T.H. Morgan School Alexander Weinstein Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis Hampton L. Carson Embryology Introduction William B. Provine Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory Viktor Hamburger The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law Frederick B. Churchill Systematics The Role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernst Mayr Botany Introduction Ernst Mayr Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution G. Ledyard Stebbins Paleontology Introduction Ernst Mayr G.G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis Stephen Jay Gould Morphology Introduction Ernst Mayr Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis William Coleman The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism Michael T. Ghiselin Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis Mark B. Adams Part Two: The Synthesis in Different Countries Soviet Union The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s Theodosius Dobzhansky Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis Mark B. Adams Germany Introduction Ernst Mayr Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany Bernhard Rensch Evolutionary Theory in Germany: A Comment Viktor Hamburger France Introduction Ernst Mayr Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernest Boesiger The Arrival of Neo-Darwinism in France Ernst Mayr A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France Camille Limoges England Introduction William B. Provine Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis E.B. Ford Lamarckism in Britain and the United States Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. A Note on W.L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work Alexander Weinstein United States Introduction William B. Provine The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited Garland E. Allen Hypotheses That Blur and Grow Hampton L. Carson Part Three: Final Considerations Interpretive Issues in the Evolutionary Synthesis Introduction William B. Provine The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis Dudley Shapere Epilogue William B. Provine Biographical Essays How I Became a Darwinian Ernst Mayr Curt Stem Ernst Mayr J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher, and William Bateson C.D. Darlington Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection Alexander Weinstein Morgan and His School in the 1930s Theodosius Dobzhansky G.G. Simpson Ernst Mayr Contributors Conference Participants Index
783 citations
1 Sep 2001
TL;DR: Conceptions of development: Preformation and epigenesis Larmarck and the idea of the evolution of species, and Preliminaries to a developmental theory of the phenotype (phenogenesis).
Abstract: Conceptions of development: Preformation and epigenesis Larmarck and the idea of the evolution of species Charles Darwin and the role of embryological development Ernst Haeckel and the biogenetic law St. George Mivart: First intimations of the role of individual development in evolution Francis Galton: Nature vs. nurture and the separation of heredity and environment August Weismann, Wilhelm Roux, Wilhelm His and Hans Driesch: An abortive attempt to understand heredity through an experimental approach to embryonic development Karl Pearson vs. William Bateson: The foundation of the quantitative study of heredity or genetics without individual development Walter Garstang, Gavin de Beer, Richard Goldschmidt: The concept of changes in individual development as the basis for evolution R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane & Sewall Wright: The genetics of populations Evolution: The modern synthesis and its failure to incorporate individual development into evolutionary theory Extending the modern synthesis: Preliminaries to a developmental theory of the phenotype (phenogenesis) From gene to organism: The developing individual as an emergent, interactional, hierarchial system Induction of behavioral change in individual development as prelude to evolution: The supra-genetic developmental basis of evolutionary change Index.
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TL;DR: The biogenetic law is restated in a falsifiable form: given an ontogenetic character transformation, from a character observed to be more general to a character observation to be less general, the more general character is primitive and the less general advanced.
Abstract: Nelson, G. (Department of Ichthyology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024) 1978. Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Paleontology, and the Biogenetic Law. Syst. Zool. 27:324-345.-The biogenetic law is restated in a falsifiable form: given an ontogenetic character transformation, from a character observed to be more general to a character observed to be less general, the more general character is primitive and the less general advanced. The law, as restated, may be generally valid. In any case, the ontogenetic argument is a valid direct technique of character phylogeny; the anatomical argument ("outgroup comparison") is an indirect technique; the paleontological argument is of uncertain status. Falsification -of all three types of arguments is explored in an analysis of L. Agassiz's concept of "threefold parallelism." Neoteny is a falsifier not of the biogenetic law, but of character phylogeny-of all three arguments. Phylogenetic reconstruction in its entirety appears to be an extrapolation of the orderliness of development. [Ontogeny; phylogeny; paleontology; biogenetic law; parsimony; falsification; Agassiz.] "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong" (Eugene Debs, 1918). "I have a simple faith that ... semantic difficulties inspire 90% of any argument and that, when these are sorted out, both sides are doing something right" (Stephen Gould, 1976). "When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffeT; superstition ain't the way" (Stevie Wonder, 1972). During the history of science there occur periods of disagreement and debate. One side of the debate sometimes emerges victorious, as for example uniformitarianism over catastrophism in geology. At other times, both sides lose, when subsequent history renders the entire debate irrelevant, as for example the debate among preformationists (spermatists vs. ovists). The last 25 years has been a period of debate among systematists. The debate has concerned basic principles of systematics (phenetics, phyletics, gradistics, etc.) and shows no sign of ending. At present, there are authors who claim that victory will be achieved in favor of some particular point of view, and others who claim that the entire debate was, is, and will continue to be, irrelevant. Of the latter authors, there are those who claim that the debate is irrelevant for systematics, and others who claim that the irrelevant factor is systematics itself. In short, all possible viewpoints seem represented. With respect to the current debate, and the future progress of science, wherein lies the relevance of systematics? In order to answer, a person must have some idea of what is being debated-the basic issues. Attaining a clear idea of the basic issues is a formidable task, as anyone who has read through the first 25 volumes of Systematic Zoology will readily admit. There are times when I wonder if there really are any basic issues, and at those times the debate seems to be over the question whether there need to be some. At other times I think that one basic issue concerns evolution and its bearing on systematics and classification. This is not a simple issue. Let me simplify it. According to the phylogenetic school, one objective of the systematist is clear: to search out shared advanced characters ("synapomorphies"), which can be used to define groups and subgroups, and which specify the nature of evolution insofar as its results are known to be orderly. The problem with this objective is
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