Palingenesis

Japanese: Palingenesis
Palingenesis

…This idea was extremely difficult to understand, so later, Haeckel gave examples in other books to explain it more clearly. For example, the appearance of characteristics of lower vertebrates, such as gill arches, notochord, and tails, in human embryos was a good example, and he named this phenomenon Palingenesis. In contrast, he distinguished the phenomenon in which new structures not found in ancestral animals appear during the developmental process, such as the placenta of mammals, and called it cenogenesis. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Palingenesis" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この考え方はきわめて理解しにくいものだったため,のちにヘッケルは他の著書の中で例をあげてわかりやすく説明した。たとえばヒトの胚に鰓弓(さいきゆう),脊索,尾など下等脊椎動物の特徴が現れることが好例とされ,この現象を彼は原形発生Palingenesisと名づけた。それに対して,哺乳類の胎盤のように,祖先の動物にはない新しい構造が発生過程に現れる現象を区別し,変形発生Cenogenesisとよんだ。…

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