Phylogenesis And Ontogenesis Quotes & Sayings

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation ... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance). — Ernst Haeckel

You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius. — Bryant McGill

A phrase such as 'the idea derived from evolution that ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis' for example, not impossibly intricate in itself but somehow resistant to effort, as though it triggered something obdurate and even delinquent in his mind. Or the promise to look at an argument from three points of view, each of which had five salient features, the first of which had four distinguishable aspects. It was like discovering that a supposedly sane person with whom one had been enjoying a perfect normal conversation was in fact quite mad. Or, if not mad, sadistic. — Howard Jacobson

Only the young die good. — Oliver Herford

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time. — Pratik Patil

This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place. — Nidesh Lawtoo

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women. — Toni Morrison

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. — John Ruskin

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick. — Kristen Johnston