Ontogeny and Phylogeny

by Stephen Jay Gould

Book Overview

"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny)... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674639413
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.1"