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SINCE the publication of the “Poissons Fossiles” by Agassiz and of the “Embryologie des Salmonidées” by Vogt, the similarity, traced by the former between certain stages in the growth of young fishes and the fossil representatives of extinct members of the group, has also been observed in nearly every class of the animal kingdom, and the fact has become a most convenient axiom in the study of palæontological and embryo-logical development. This parallelism, which has been on the one side a strong argument in favour of design in the plan of creation, is now, with slight emendations, doing duty on the other as a newly-discovered article of faith in the new biology.
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Palæontological and Embryolgical Development 1 . Nature 22, 424–431 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022424a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022424a0