Ontogeny and Phylogeny Author:Stephen Jay Gould "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Gould documents the histo... more »ry of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century.« less