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> Is there any concept in Psychogy similar to this biological adage 
> phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny?
The biological "adage" is the other way around: ontogeny recapitulates 
phylogeny. The psychological version would be, well, "ontogeny 
recapitulates phylogeny," and it was borrowed by G. Stanley Hall 
directly from its embryologist inventor Ernst Haeckel. Recapitulationism 
was the very basis of Hall's theory of mental development.

Regards,
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
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