What is the name of the scientist who disproved the idea of embryological support for evolution?

What is the name of the scientist who disproved the idea of embryological support for evolution?
  1. Ernst Heckel
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Ernst von Baer
  4. Stephen Jay Gould

Solution

Karl Ernst von Baer was the scientist who disproved the idea of embryological support for evolution by noting that embryos never pass through the adult stages of other animals.

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