Question

�Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny�. This theory was given by

• A. Haeckel
• B. Darwin
• C. Wallace
• D. Linnaeus.

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Haeckel

Answer 2

A notorious view propounded by Ernst Haeckel in about 1860 that during an animals development it passes through ancestral adult stages (ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny). Much of the evidence is derived from the work of Karl Von Baer.