“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”
Quote by Fritz Muller
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Source: Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
Source: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
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