charlieb wrote:
Turning Trend - Ontology Recapitulates Phylogeny - In Reverse?

In Biology, there was a theory that all organisms, as they developed
from conception to viability, along the way, exhibit a characteristic of
a lower Phylum - ontology recapitulating phylogeny. From my sophomore
biology class the Phylum start with single cell animals, Protozoas, and
progress to Chordata - having a central nerve core and spine.

Recent trends in woodturning seem to indicate that this theory applies
in reverse - Phylogenic Regression. Think about it. From chunk of wood
to “board” to “plate” to “bowel” to “vessel” to “hollow form” - from raw
^^^^^^^
Freudian slip?

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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

To be, or not to be, those are the
parameters.