recapitulationism

名詞

不可算名詞

(biology) The doctrine that during embryonic development various structures develop that appeared during the evolutionary history of the species

日本語の意味

胚発生過程において、その種の進化の歴史上現れた様々な構造が再現されるという生物学的学説

Many 19th-century biologists advocated recapitulationism to explain similarities between embryos and adult forms of other species.

19世紀の多くの生物学者は、胚と他の種の成体の間に見られる類似性を説明するために発生反復説を唱えた。

意味（1）

(biology) The doctrine that during embryonic development various structures develop that appeared during the evolutionary history of the species