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Embryological evolution tain circles who have conditioned them-
selves to support the theory of evolution
Any mammal undergoes a develop-
still seek to portray his falsified dra-
mental process in its mother’s womb.
wings as evidence of embryological evo-
The claim that embryological develop- lution.
ment in living things is evidence for evo- According to Haeckel’s theory emb-
lution, however, is known as the Recapi- ryos repeat the evolutionary process du-
tulation theory in evolutionist literature. ring their developmental stages. The hu-
(See Recapitulation theory.) A number man embryo, for instance, first exhibits
of evolutionist publications and textbo- fish-like features and then reptilian ones
oks today seek to portray this theory of during its development in the womb be-
recapitulation which had previously be- fore finally resembling a human being.
en removed from the scientific literature, In later years, however, it emerged
as a scientific fact. that this scenario was wholly imaginary.
The term “recapitulation” is an ab- The supposed gills that appeared during
breviated version of the “Ontogeny reca- an embryo’s earliest stages were deter-
pitulates phylogeny” axiom proposed by mined in fact to be the middle ear canal
the evolutionist biologist Ernst Haeckel and the beginning of the parathyroid and
in the 19 th century. Haeckel, the father thymus glands. That part of the embryo
of the recapitulation theory, resorted to formerly compared to the yolk sac was
fabricated drawings to back up his ficti- revealed to be a sac producing blood for
tious thesis. (See Haeckel, Ernst.) Cer- the baby. That part that Haeckel and his
THE EVOLUTION IMPASSE I