If you haven’t read my piece on Flatfish Eyes & Recapitulation Theory, you should check it out. For those of you who have read it, I updated it with the following AMAZING morph animations of flatfish development that I somehow missed before (much thanks to Adrian Thysse, FCD of Evolving Complexity for pointing these out [...]
Mar
07
2009
07
2009
Mar
05
2009
05
2009
Biochemical Sole
The above image arrived in my email inbox last night from the preeminent coral reef expert and blogger extraordinaire Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets.
The subject line simply read “I’m just sayin…”
The pun came from his recent Carnival of the Blue #22 in which he wrote of my post on Flatfish Eyes [...]
Feb
25
2009
25
2009
Adaptation of the Week – Flatfish Eyes & Recapitulation Theory
Most biologists at one time or another in their training have learned of the 19th century theory expounded upon by Ernst Haeckel called “Recapitulation Theory“.
The theory’s thesis: “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” Don’t worry – it’s not as complicated as the biological jargon might imply.
The idea boils down to a simple one – one that seemed to [...]


