Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

  • Evolution from recapitulation theory to Neural Darwinism

    JMS Pearce London, United Kingdom Early evolutionary theorists noted that the evolution of the brain, its structural organization, and microscopic structure appeared to develop concurrently with human anatomy through the process of evolution. This understanding of the evolution of the brain was heavily influenced by both the theories of phylogeny, which discusses this evolutionary lineage…