Ontogeny and phylogeny
by Stephen Jay Gould · first published 1977
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This idea is explored heavily by Steven J. Gould in his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny. I highly recommend anyone interested in this idea to check it out. As far as I remember the "fallacy" is not that these stages exist, but that evolution works by adding new stages on top and pushing…
on “Ancestor of animals identified in Australian fossils” ↗1) Biology and Knowledge by Jean Piaget 2) Ontogeny and Phylogeny by S.J. Gould 3) The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob These books have very little fluff and will challenge you to think in new ways about evolution, biology, and the development of human knowledge.
on “Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?” ↗…development of distant species, and that commonality is due to conserved genes that evolved a very long time ago. (There is, of course, another commonality. And that is the observation due to Gould in Ontogeny and Phylogeny that a lot of the raw material for evolution comes from altering the timing and rates of existing development processes, rather than from introducing "new" features.)
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