[biogenetic law] n (1882): 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 the group
BIOGENETIC LAW
Meaning of BIOGENETIC LAW in English
Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012