Max Heindel

Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

Danish Celebrity

Richard Preston

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

American Writer

Charles Murray

Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.

American Scientist

Mark Leyner

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

American Author

Julia Holter

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.

American Musician

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

Use 'recapitulate' when summarizing to clarify or highlight the main ideas after a detailed discussion.

Clarity Purpose

'Recapitulate' is often used at the end of speeches or presentations to reinforce the core message.

Speeches & Presentations

Using 'recapitulate' suggests a final repetition; it indicates you're summarizing before concluding.

Emphasis on Closure

When used in biology, 'recapitulate' refers to phylogenetic recapitulation theory but it's somewhat outdated.

Evolutionary Context

This usage discusses the similarities between an embryo's development stages and its species' evolutionary history.

Developmental Stages

'Recapitulate' in biology is a technical term, used within a specific scientific domain.

Technical Term

In music, 'recapitulate' refers to revisiting the main theme after exploring different melodies.

Musical Structure

Understanding 'recapitulate' is crucial in classical music, especially when discussing sonata form.

Sonata Form

'Recapitulate' implies the composer's deliberate return to a musical idea to create a sense of unity.

Composer's Intent

 that recapitulates what happens in humans. In humans, you're in high school, some friends suggest you use some cocaine, you take cocaine, nothing happens. Months pass by, something reminds you of what happened the first time, a pusher pushes cocaine, and you become addicted and your life has changed. In rats, we do the same thing.

How early life...

 were dying in the disease. So basically what he did was to take a healthy cell and turn it into a sick cell, and he recapitulated the disease over and over again in the dish, and this was extraordinary, because it was the first time that we had a model of a disease from a living patient in living human cells.

Susan Solomon: The...

 until he finally gets to the platform so he's not using vision to do it these different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that that affect humans and sort of being careful and trying to look at these different models so we come with a generalized approach so how are

A light switch for...

 Mice are smart, so this one solves the maze eventually, but he does a brute-force search. He's swimming down every avenue until he finally gets to the platform. He's not using vision to do it. These different mice are different mutations that recapitulate different kinds of blindness that affect humans.

Ed Boyden: A light...

 So, this sort of recapitulates what I was telling you about development. You have a very sensitive computer program where small changes -- single, tiny, little mutations -- can take something that made one size square and make something very much bigger.

Paul Rothemund: The...

 recapitulate just four or five now oh the slideshow I update the slideshow every time I give it I add new images because I learned more about it every time I give it it's like beachcombing you know every time the tide comes in and out you find

Averting the climate...

 Well, I've more or less said what I wanted. I think I just want to recapitulate and say this is common. Think of the number of blind people. There must be hundreds of thousands of blind people who have these hallucinations

What hallucination...

 and all of this information stored there will be able, in the next couple decades, once software is able to recapitulate consciousness, be able to revive the consciousness which is imminent in our mind file.

Martine Rothblatt: My...

 If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.

Richard Preston:...

 I'm going to show some new images, and I'm going to recapitulate just four or five. Now, the slide show. I update the slide show every time I give it. I add new images,