Funny Quote by Ernst Haeckel Download Open image “Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.” — Ernst Haeckel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Success
It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent,… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.1 In other words, the development of the stem, or race, is, in accordance with the laws of… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny.… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages.… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image