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1. biogenetic law; recapitulation theory (theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny)
Wikipedia definition
2. Recapitulation theoryThe theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism—and often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—is a disproven biological hypothesis that in developing from embryo to adult, animals go through stages resembling or representing successive stages in the evolution of their remote ancestors.
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