How do you use recapitulate in a sentence?

Answer:
"Progeny recapitulate ontogeny.", meaning that children have traits of their parents and other ancestors, all the way back to when humans arose.
When Lily met Joseph, she tried hard to recapitulate the hour-long lecture into the 15 minutes that the two could spend together.
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