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summarizing his observations of different organisms and their history. The notion later became simply known as the recapitulation theory, and the view as recapitulationism. Ontogeny is the growth (size change) and development (structure change) of an individual organism; phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a species. Haeckel claimed that the development of advanced species passes through stages represented by adult organisms of more

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