Louis Bolk
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Lodewijk 'Louis' Bolk (10 December 1866, Overschie – 17 June 1930, Amsterdam) was a Dutch anatomist who created the fetalization theory about the human body.[1] It states that when a human being is born, it is still a fetus, as can be seen by its (proportionally) big head, lack of coordination, and helplessness. Furthermore, this "prematuration" is specifically human.
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Gavin de Beer and Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory of neoteny in humans.[2]
Also Jacques Lacan took Bolk's fetalization theory into account in order to introduce his own thesis on the mirror stage.[citation needed]
Bolk wrote in Origin of Racial Characteristics in Man, “White skin...started from an ancestor with a black skin, in whose offspring hair and iris color were suppressed more and more.”[3]
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