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We saw that the palingenetic form of the heart is a spindle-shaped thickening of the gut-fibre layer in the ventral wall of the head-gut.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

The palingenetic phenomena, or embryonic RECAPITULATIONS, are due to heredity, to the transmission of characters from one generation to another.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

But the special form of segmentation and layer formation which we find in the mammal is by no means the original, simple, palingenetic form.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Nevertheless, it is not difficult to reduce the whole cenogenetic or disturbed development of this amphigastrula to the true palingenetic formation of the archigastrula of the amphioxus.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

The Gastraea bilateralis, of which we may conceive the bilateral gastrula of the amphioxus to be a palingenetic reproduction, represented the two-sided organism of the earliest Metazoa in its simplest form.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August