Research Catalog

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Description

1. ix, 501 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

1. Phylogeny
2. Ontogeny
3. Phylogeny
4. Ontogeny
5. Ontogenie
6. Phylogenie
7. Ontogenese
8. Fylogenese
9. Évolution
10. Ontogenèse
11. Phylogénie

Contents

1. Prospectus -- Recapitulation : 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” -- Transcendental origins, 1793-1860 : Naturphilosophie: an expression of developmentalism ; Two leading recapitulationists among the naturphilosphen: Oken and Meckel : Oken’s classification of animals by 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 -- Evolutionary triumph, 1859-1900 : Evolutionary theory and zoological practice : Darwin and the evolution of Von Baer’s 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 the universal acceleration. Lamarckism and the memory analogy ; Recapitulation and Darwinism ; Appendix: the evolutionary translation of von Baer’s laws -- Pervasive influence : Criminal anthropology ; Racism ; Child development ; Primary education ; Freudian psychoanalysis ; Epilogue -- 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 law ; Recapitulation and substantive issues in experimental embryology: the new preformationism. Mendel’s resurrection, Haeckel’s fall, and the generalization of recapitulation -- Heterochrony and paedomorphosis : 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 dissociability ; 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 441-477.