Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Recapitulation refuted

  • Evolution from recapitulation theory to Neural Darwinism

    JMS PearceLondon, 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 of…