Tracy P. Hamilton
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| Quote (Paul Nelson @ Mar. 10 2008,10:50) | Alb,
Thanks for posting the link to my UD article.
Do you think Prothero should have reprinted the Romanes / Haeckel drawings? |
I'm not albatrossity, but I would say no. There are much better figures out there.
Enough about the mote in Prothero's eye, though.
For example, you claim Prothero has confused von Baer's claim with Haeckel's. It is clear he has not.
You claim the figure caption is wrong - it is not. You fault it for what it doesn't say. This is a book about fossils primarily, after all, not one on embryology
or developmental biology.
The first link doesn't support any argument that embryogenesis did not evolve by descent with modification. I have no idea what you mean by "conservation of embryogenesis".
Keeping this on topic, is there a page in Exploring Evolution that deals with embryology? 
Edited to add smiley.
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