Abstract
Othenio Abel launched Palaeobiologica with a wish that the ideas of Louis Dollo might flourish and bring prosperity to the new journal.1 Palaeobiologica did not survive the war; Dollo's name lives as a masthead to the law of irreversibility, but his forgotten work presents this notion in a fashion altogether different from the formulations of our textbooks. Abel's journal may have met a kinder fate. Dollo's law, moreover, has fallen into disrepute along with the entire enterprise that sought to abstract historical laws from the phenomena of phylogeny. I find this unfortunate for two reasons:
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