Table of Contents
4     Evolutionary Triumph,     1859–1900 69
        Evolutionary Theory and Zoological Practice 69  
          Darwin and the Evolution of Von Baer's Laws      70  
          Evolution and the Mechanics of Recapitulation     74  
        Ernst Haeckel: Phylogeny as the Mechanical Cause  
          of Ontogeny      76  
             The Mechanism of Recapitulation 78  
      The American Neo-Lamarckians: The Law of Acceleration as  
        Evolution's Motor     85  
          Progressive Evolution by Acceleration      85  
          The Extent of Parallelism      88  
          Why Does Recapitulation Dominate the History of Life?     90  
          Alpheus Hyatt and Universal Acceleration     91  
      Lamarckism and the Memory Analogy     96  
      Recapitulation and Darwinism     100  
      Appendix: The Evolutionary Translation of von Baer's Laws     109  
5     Pervasive Influence 115
          Criminal Anthropology     120  
          Racism     126  
          Child Development     135  
          Primary Education     147  
          Freudian Psychoanalysis     155  
          Epilogue     164  
6     Decline, Fall, and Generalization 167
        A Clever Argument     167  
        An Empirical Critique     168  
          Organs or Ancestors: The Transformation of Haeckel's  
                 Heterochrony     170  
          Interpolations into Juvenile Stages     176  
          Introduction of Juvenile Features into the Adults  
             of Descendants     177  
       What Had Become of von Baer's Critique?     184  
        Benign Neglect: Recapitulation and the Rise of Experimental  
          Embryology 186  
            The Prior Assumptions of Recapitulation     186  
            Wilhelm His and His Physiological Embryology: A Preliminary  
                      Skirmish 189  
         Roux's Entwicklungsmechanik and the Biogenetic Law     194  
        Recapitulation and Substantive Issues in Experimental  
          Embryology: The New Preformationism     197  
        Mendel's Resurrection, Haeckel's Fall, and the Generalization of  
            Recapitulation     202