In Darwin's "Biographical Sketch of an Infant" he suggested that perhaps an individual's development proceeds along roughly the same lines as the previous evolution of the species to which it belongs.This idea became summarized by the term
A) social Darwinism.
B) polygenism.
C) the complementarity hypothesis.
D) ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

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Darwin's idea that an individual's development follows the evolutionary stages of its species was summarized by the term "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." This means that the development of an embryo or fetus (ontogeny) reflects the evolutionary history of its species (phylogeny). However, this idea has been largely discredited by modern developmental biology research.

In Darwin's "Biographical Sketch of an Infant" He Suggested That