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3.3.5 Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

New support grows for a general recapitulation between individual development and phylogenetic evolution across embryonic, cognitive, behavioral, and linguistic realms.


Arthur, Wallace. The Origin of Animal Body Plans: A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Calvin, Wiliam H., and Derek Bickerton. Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.

Ekstig, Borje. “Condensation of Developmental Stages and Evolution.” BioScience. vol. 44, no. 3 (March 1994): 77–84.

Fell, David, and Alice Wagner. “The Small World of Metabolism.” Nature Biotechnology. vol. 18, no. 11 (November 2000): 1120–24.

Gibson, Kathleen. “The Ontogeny and Evolution of the Brain, Cognition and Language.” In Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, eds. Andrew Lock and Charles Peters, 407–31. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

Gopnik, Alison. “Theories, Language, and Culture.” In Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, eds. Melissa Bowerman and Stephen C. Levinson, 45–69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Gould, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge, Mass.: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.
_______. “Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Revisited and Reunited.” BioEssays. vol. 14, no. 4 (April 1992): 112–14.

Hurford, James R., et al., eds. Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Knight, Chris, et al., eds. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Longuet-Higgins, Christopher. “Issues in Mental Development.” In Modelling the Early Human Mind, eds. Paul Mellars and Kathleen Gibson, 153–57. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge; Oakville, Conn.: Oxbow Books, 1996.

Martindale, Mark, and Billie Swalla. “Introduction to the Symposium: The Evolution of Development Patterns and Process.” American Zoologist. vol. 38, no. 4 (June 1998): 17–21.

Mayr, Ernst. “Recapitulation Revisited: The Somatic Program.” Quarterly Review of Biology. vol. 69, no. 2 (February 1994): 227–31.

McKinney, Michael. “The Juvenilized Ape Myth: Our 'Overdeveloped' Brain.” BioScience. vol. 48, no. 2 (February 1998): 92–98.

Mithen, Steven. The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion, and Science. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Parker, Sue Taylor, and Michael L. McKinney. Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Richards, Robert J. “Darwin’s Romantic Biology: The Foundation of His Evolutionary Ethics.” In Biology and the Foundation of Ethics, eds. Jane Maienschein and Michael Ruse, 113–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Singer, Wolf. “Consciousness and the Binding Problem.” In Cajal and Consciousness: Scientific Approaches on the Centennial of Ramón y Cajal’s Textura. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 929, ed. Pedro Marijuán, 123–46. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 2001.

Zelditch, Miriam, ed. Beyond Heterochrony: The Evolution of Development. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001.

 

   
 
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