Cell lineage, ancestral reminiscence, and the biogenetic law / Jane Maienschein.
Abstract:
'... biologists no longer regard ontogeny as repeating phylogeny in a uniform way which can be captured by a law. The meaning of the relation has changed significantly since 1866. I propose to discuss one of the many factors responsible for this shift in understanting.' Considers the work of six Americans: C. O. Whitman, E. B. Wilson, E. G. Conklin, A. L. Treadwell, A. D. Mead, and F. R. Lillie
Journal of the history of biology T. 11 (1978), p. 129-158