law of recapitulation

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• law of recapitulation — recapitulation theory …   Useful english dictionary

• recapitulation — index account (report), capsule, compendium, digest, hornbook, narration, outline (synopsis) …   Law dictionary

• recapitulation theory — n BIOGENETIC LAW * * * ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny; that is, an organism in the course of its development goes through the same successive stages as did the species in developing from the lower to the higher forms of animal life. Called also …   Medical dictionary

• Law, Legislation and Liberty — is the 1973 magnum opus in three volumes by Nobel laureate economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. In it, Hayek further develops the philosophical principles he discussed earlier in The Road to Serfdom , The Constitution of Liberty …   Wikipedia

• Recapitulation theory — The theory of recapitulation, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism and often expressed as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is a disproven hypothesis that in developing from embryo to adult, animals go through stages… …   Wikipedia

• law — 1. A principle or rule. 2. A statement of fact detailing a sequence or relation of phenomena that is invariable under given conditions. SEE ALSO: principle, rule, theorem. [A.S. lagu] Alexander l. states that a jerky nystagmus becomes worse when… …   Medical dictionary

• recapitulation theory — noun : a theory in biology: an organism passes through successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual is a recapitulation of the phylogeny of its group compare… …   Useful english dictionary

• Haeckel's law — recapitulation theory …   Medical dictionary

• Anglo-Saxon law — While there is virtually no evidence of Anglo Saxon law per se (i.e. case law and jurisprudence), a significant amount of the literature of law from the Anglo Saxon period still survives. Discussion of Anglo Saxon law must, therefore, be confined …   Wikipedia

• Ancient Greek law — is a branch of comparative jurisprudence relating to the laws and legal institutions of Ancient Greece. Greek Iuris law has been partially compared with Roman law, and has been incidentally illustrated with the aid of the primitive institutions… …   Wikipedia

• biogenetic law — n a theory of development much disputed in biology: an organism passes through successive stages resembling the series of ancestral types from which it has descended so that the ontogeny of the individual is a recapitulation of the phylogeny of… …   Medical dictionary