Sentence examples for his recapitulation from inspiring English sources
It has also been claimed that certain former pieces of evidence for evolution which are now considered out-of-date and erroneous, such as Ernst Haeckel's 19th-century comparative drawings of embryos, used to illustrate his Recapitulation theory ("Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny"), were not merely errors but frauds.
Ernst Haeckel's so-called 'Biogenetic Law'ontogenyeny recapitulates phylogeny') has long been discredited, and controversy surrounds Haeckel's illustrated embryos with which he argued his recapitulation hypothesis, but there is no doubt that early embryos resemble each other more closely than do late-stage embryos (von Baer's Law).
His recapitulations tend to be straightforward.
Among the most probing of his recapitulations is his portrayal of decision-making in Germany compared with that of France and Britain, a comparison in which the tyrant Hitler got better results than Daladier or Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain of Britain.
"Invertebrates" provided the fodder for most of his experimental work on development, leading to his "law of recapitulation".
His Vietnam reportage was exceptional, almost artful; his summary and recapitulation more than three decades later is formidable, gripping and always informative.
It was quite the opposite to what Haeckel had suggested, his so-called "recapitulation".
Inside of a half-hour, Mr. Jindal shoehorned a brief history of Louisiana's political and economic problems, a historical excursion on the office he was sitting in, an agenda for his remaining four years, an analysis of why the state's government had failed, a recapitulation of his recent campaign, a paean to his father, an explanation of why he pushed the ethics bills, and other topics.
Haeckel, who is best known for developing the theory of recapitulation ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"), was also a masterful artist, and his illustrated studies of everything from jellyfish to moths and praying mantids, executed with painstaking precision, reveal a natural world that is utterly mystifying and complex.
