General Morphology

…also called recapitulation theory. This is the theory that German zoologist E. Haeckel asserted in his book General Morphology of Organisms (1866) that "ontogeny is a short repetition of phylogenetic development." After C. Darwin proposed the theory of biological evolution called the theory of natural selection in his major work On the Origin of Species (1859), Haeckel fully agreed with this theory and wrote General Morphology based on it as a self-proclaimed monistic explanation of the form and origin of all living organisms. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "general morphology" are listed below.

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…反復説recapitulation theoryともいう。ドイツの動物学者E.ヘッケルが，著書《有機体の一般形態学》(1866)の中で主張した〈個体発生は系統発生の短いくり返しである〉という学説のこと。C.ダーウィンが主著《種の起原》(1859)で〈自然淘汰説〉とよばれる生物進化の理論を提唱したのち，ヘッケルはこの説に全面的に賛同し，それにのっとってすべての生物の形態とその成立ちを，自称〈一元論〉的に説明するものとして《一般形態学》を書いた。…

※「《一般形態学》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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