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		pazimzadeh on Jan 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two Things For Biology, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory Instead I would say: 1. Some things can replicate better than others. 2. Things replicate imperfectly, causing change over time.

envane on Jan 31, 2012 [–]

When I got to that quote, I laughed and stopped reading. This list has clearly not been fact checked.

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