har-ish

I first came across “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” when I was seventeen, while studying zoology and the evolutionary relationships between different animal phyla.

The idea fascinated me then: that the development of an individual might somehow echo the much older story of its lineage. I wasn’t particularly bothered by whether the claim was scientifically precise. The idea itself stayed with me.
Nearly thirty years later, while absentmindedly drawing these little forms, the phrase suddenly came back to me.

Perhaps that is what I like about old ideas. They sometimes lie dormant for years, only to resurface when you least expect them.