Ontogeny and Phylogeny

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Pp. ix 501; 71 text-figures (line-drawings and graphs). Publishers original brown cloth lettered in silver on the spine original tan pictorial dust jacket lettered in green lg 8vo. What is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? This is the first major book on this subject in fifty years. Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. This is the first of many books that Stephen Jay Gould published. From the library of Richard L. Casanova with his bookplate on the front endpaper.