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Paleontology

principle that complex structures lost in evolution are not regained in the same form.

In paleontology, Dollo's law refers to principle that complex structures lost in evolution are not regained in the same form. This meaning comes from Gould (1970) in Journal of the History of Biology.[1]

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References

Gould, S. J. (1970). Dollo on Dollo's law: Irreversibility and the status of evolutionary laws. Journal of the History of Biology, 3(2), 189-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00137351

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