Meckel-Serres law

English

Etymology

It was formulated in the 1820s by Étienne Serres based on the work of Johann Friedrich Meckel.

Proper noun

the Meckel-Serres law

  1. The theory of recapitulationism, according to which "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".
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