Description: List of Illustrations Preface 1. The Natural History of Ideas 2. Evolution vs. Epigenesis in Embryogenesis 3. The Theory of Evolutionary Recapitulation in the Context of Transcendental Morphology Early Recapitulation Theorists Naturphilosophie and Transcendental Morphology Oken's Transcendental Morphology Evolutionary Recapitulationism of Tiedemann, Treviranus, and Meckel Von Baer's Critique of Recapitulation Theory 4. Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Species Change Serres, Grant, Green, and Lyell on Recapitulation and Evolution Darwin's Theories of Species Change Natural Selection as the Mechanism of Progressive Evolution 5. Darwin's Embryological Theory of Progressive Evolution The Embryological Model as Formulated in the Notebooks Owen's Rejection of Recapitulation and Evolution Darwin's Knowledge of Von Baer Historical Evaluation of Darwin's Principle of Recapitulation Recapitulation in the Essays the Impact of Agassiz's Fishes, 1842-1844 Owen, Chambers, and Milne-Edwards, 1844-1846 The Embryology of Barnacles and the Criteria of Progressive Development, 1846-1854 Huxley's Objections to Recapitulation and Darwin's Experiments Embryological Recapitulation in theOrigin of Species The Role of Recapitulation in theDescent of Man The Logic of Darwin's Theory of Evolution 6. The Meaning of Evolution and the Ideological Uses of History Bibliography Index

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