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Q. Recapitulation theory was proposed by :

Rajasthan PMTRajasthan PMT 2005

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Ernst Haeckel (1886) proposed phylogenetic law (theory of recapitulation) which stated that embryoes often pass through ancestral adult stages (now it is accepted that embryon often pass through stages resembling related embryonic, not adult, forms).