Index


Abbie, A. A., 359, 364, 367, 368T, 380, 383 Agassiz, L., 7, 39, 76, 91, 184; and evolu-
Abnormalities, as developmental arrests,     tionist influence, 68, 73, 74, 419n29; and
    49–52, 125, 158     fossil fishes, study of, 64, 65–68, 419n27;
Abortion, 15     influence of Cuvier on, 63–64; his opposi-
Accelerated maturation, see Precocious matu-     tion to Darwinism, 67, 419nn25 and 29; his
    ration; Progenesis     racism, 127, 438n9; his recapitulation con-
Acceleration: and adultation, 233–234; of am-     cept, 7, 63–68, 69, 419nn26 and 29; his ref-
    monite sutures, 241, 242F, 268–269; and     utation of von Baer, 64–65; threefold par-
    bathmism, 90; and condensation, 75F, 83,     allelism, and fossil record, 66–68, 69, 73,
    93, 99, 100; in Cope's law, and progressive     169n
    evolution, 86–91; and heredity, 83, 95; and Age, and heterochrony clock model, 246–261
    heterochrony categories, 226, 228; Hyatt's Air, as an element, 40, 4 IT, 43
    universal law of, 91–96, 137, 200; and old- Albrecht, F. O., 315
    age theory, 93–95; and ontogeny-phylogeny Allometry: and hypermorphosis, 341–343;
    parallels, 210, 216–217, 220, 221; and ox-     and measure of heterochrony, 238–241,
    ygen level, 90–91; as process, 228, 253, 262,     246. See also Clock model; Shape; Size
    268; and r selection, see r selection; in reca- Allomorphosis, 220
    pitulation, critique of, 168–169, 185; and Alveolar prognathism: primates, 384–385
    recapitulation, dominance of, 90, 229–230, Ambystoma, 299–300, 301, 302, 319–321,
    232–233; and regulatory change, 232–233;     435n8. See also Axolotl
    unequal, and recapitulation, 89, 95, American imperialism, scientific rationale for,
    174–175, 183     131
Acher, R. A., 141 American Neo-Lamarckism, 85–100, 423n20
Acquired characters: and animal activity, Ammonite sutures, acceleration in, 241, 242F,
    87–88, 91; heritability of, 80–81, 100, 156,     268–269
    422n9; and memory and heredity analogy, Amoeba, as ancestral stage, 170, 171F, 172F
    96–100, 202, 203; Mendelian rejection of, Amphibia: neoteny in, 319–324; paedomor-
    203; and new genera, 86, 88     phosis in, and thyroid action, 299–301, 302,
Adaptation: Haeckelian definition of, 81n;     319, 435n9. See also Axolotl; Salamanders
    and population ecology, 289–290; and Anaboly, 210, 217–220
    retardation, in human evolution, 397–404. Anatomical exercitations, 16
See also K selection; Neoteny; Progenesis; r Anaximander, 13, 14–15
    selection Anaximenes, 13
Addition, see Terminal addition Ancestors, hypothetical: and ontogenetic
Adelmann, H. B., 413n3     stages, 102n, 170–173
Adler, A., 155 Ancestral character, neurosis as, 158–159
Adolescence, 143 Ancestral ontogeny, heterochrony clock model
Adolescence, phyletic stage of, 142–143     of, 250
Adolph, E. F., 366 Anderson, J. D., 321, 329
Adultation, and acceleration, 233–234 Animal activity, and acquired characters,
Adult variation, and heterochrony, 225     87–88, 91
Aemuta inusitata, 332–333 Animal classifications: and animal kingdom as
Aesthetic sensibility, and primitive-as-child     organism, 37–38; by increasing perfection,
    argument, 129 15; by linear addition of organs, 40–45,
Aether, as an element, 40, 41T, 43     416n8; and single structural plan, 47–48;
African bovids, neoteny of, 348–349     type in, 56–57, 58F, 60, 62, 64, 418nnl9
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, 342–353,     and 20
    361 Animism, of children, 129

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