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Explain the term ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

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is a catchy phrase coined by Ernst Haeckel, a 19th century German biologist and philosopher to mean that the development of an organism (ontogeny) expresses all the intermediate forms of ancestors throughout evolution (phylogeny).

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