"Coalescent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... individual development of the skull by no means favoured the older hypothesis of Goethe and Oken, Gegenbaur brought forward evidence that the fundamental idea of that theory was correct; that the skull does in fact correspond to a series of coalescent vertebrae, but that the separate bones of the skull are not to be regarded as representing parts of such modified vertebrae. The skull-bones of all recent vertebrate animals are rather, for the most ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel |
