germ history

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Learned borrowing from German Keimesgeschichte.

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germ history (countable and uncountable, plural germ histories)

  1. (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) Ontogeny, specifically as a supposed recapitulation of phylogeny.[1]

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  1. ^ Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.
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