Meanings of recapitulation theory in English

The recapitulation theory originated as a deduction from the evolution theory and as a deduction it still remains.

W. B. Scott, in the "Theory of Evolution," says, "Thirty years ago, the recapitulation theory was well nigh universally accepted.

A peculiar combination of the ideas of development and formation from without has given rise to the recapitulation theory of education, biological and cultural.

Embryology, or the Recapitulation Theory, is the last, and perhaps the least important of the claims advanced in favor of evolution.