Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
brates. Worms and other articu¬ 
lates in embryo lie doubled back¬ 
wards around the yolk, while all 
vertebrates are doubled in the op¬ 
posite direction. According to the 
theory that the embryonic condi¬ 
tion is a recapitulation of the 
stages of organic evolution, this 
fundamental fact of invertebrate 
embryology ought to have been pre¬ 
served by the vertebrate, and it 
ought, at least, to pass through a 
stage of development bent back¬ 
ward around the yolk. Evolution 
gives no account of this reversal 
of position by the vertebrates.’’ 
(“Organic Evolution Considered,” 
p. 145.) “Why should the whole 
first half of the history of evolution 
be not even hinted at in the epit¬ 
ome?” (“Organic Evolution Con¬ 
sidered,” p. 147.) 
It is also to be remembered that 
the young mammal is never like 
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