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Nevertheless, it is not difficult to reduce the whole cenogenetic or disturbed development of this amphigastrula to the true palingenetic formation of the archigastrula of the amphioxus.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

It is precisely in the study of these difficult features that we see the incalculable value of phylogenetic considerations in explaining complex ontogenetic facts, and the need of separating cenogenetic phenomena from palingenetic.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

In order to appreciate this important feature, we have distributed the embryological phenomena in two groups, palingenetic and cenogenetic.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

In both respects the invaluable amphioxus—the sole survivor of the acrania—is found to be the original model that has preserved for us in palingenetic form by a tenacious heredity these most important embryonic processes.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

The palingenetic phenomena, or embryonic recapitulations, are due to heredity, to the transmission of characters from one generation to another.

From Evolution in Modern Thought by Weismann, August