Does the human embryo go through stages of evolution?
Quick-read this article: The idea that the human embryo retraces the stages of evolution has been exposed as false for many years. Yet the idea persists. The human embryo is human from the moment of conception, and shows no evidence of evolution. Some people claim that the earliest stage of human life — the embryo — retraces the history of evolution. They claim that as the embryo develops, it shows features of a fish, a reptile, a tail like a monkey, and finishes up with organs like tonsils and the appendix. The appendix and tonsils, they say, are now “useless” but were once useful to creatures that were evolving. This idea has been totally discredited. Informed medical experts these days admit that this theory, called “embryonic recapitulation,” is incorrect. A leading surgeon in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Warwick Glover, said that even the textbooks his medical students used for years show that the idea is false. German philosopher Ernst Haeckel in the late 1800s was the first to prom
