| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| biogenetic law |
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| NOUN: | The theory that the stages in an organism's embryonic development and differentiation correspond to the stages of evolutionary development characteristic of the species. Also called Haeckel's law, recapitulation theory.
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