Animal Quote by Erasmus Darwin

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

— Lorenz Oken

Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on…

— Ernst Haeckel

The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed…

— Fritz Muller

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon…

— Richard Owen

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

— John Vaillant

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

— Maria Montessori

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.…

— Todd Akin

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

— Philip Glass

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

— Charles Darwin

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language…

— Peter Farb

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne