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RECAPITULATION THEORY [2 records]

Record 1 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

The theory that ontogeny recapitulates philogeny.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
OBS

[...] l'ontogenèse ou développement de l'individu serait une répétition abrégée ou récapitulation de la phylogénie ou histoire de l'espèce.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

The principle that the individual tends in the course of his own development to exhibit behaviors that repeat the history of his species.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
OBS

Voir aussi «phylogénèse».

Spanish

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