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Balfour, Francis Maitland

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Balfour, Francis Maitland, 1851–82, Scottish embryologist; brother of A. J. Balfour. He was an early exponent of recapitulation recapitulation, theory, stated as the biogenetic law by E. H. Haeckel , that the embryological development of the individual repeats the stages in the evolutionary development of the species.
..... Click the link for more information. . His Treatise on Comparative Embryology (2 vol., 1880–81) is a classic treatment of the evolution of the egg and embryo. Professor of animal morphology at Cambridge Univ., Balfour did research there and at the zoological station at Naples.


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