Re: four winged Archaeopteryx

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Eh, I don't see how that helps matters _at all_.  Phylogeny can't
> recapitute ontogeny as phylogeny (as a process) is in the past and
> ontogeny is in the present.  If this restatement of Haeckel's "law"
> means anything at all, it's that you can change the usual direction
> causality :-)

Then use Baer's Law instead: early ontogenetic stages of descendants 
resemble early ontogenetic stages (not adult stages, as Haeckel thought) of 
ancestors -- ontogeny is to some degree conserved. A rather trival affair, 
actually.