Burlbaw Texas A&M An Early Start: WPA University Emergency Nursery Schools in Texas, 1934-1943 35 Joshua Garrison University of A Problematic Alliance: Wisconsin-Oshkosh Colonial Anthropology,
Recapitulation Theory, and G.
In biology this law was codified as
recapitulation theory, the hugely influential notion that individual development (ontogeny) replays species evolution (phylogeny).
But Haeckel wasn't the first to believe that there was truth in some form of
recapitulation theory. That honor goes back to the ancient Egyptians in about 640 BCE.
This book engages pregnancy from a historical and contemporary point of view, describing long-forgotten theories like maternal impression and
recapitulation theory, as well as old wives' tales of storks.