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life history

noun

, Biology.

the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
life cycle ( def 1 ).

life history

the series of changes undergone by an organism between fertilization of the egg and death
the series of events that make up a person's life

First recorded in 1865–70

And every other species—and there are millions of them—also carry vestiges of its life history.

When she was 13, Miscavige Hill says she required to fill out a life history form.

Tom Sykes on the shocking real-life history of Highclere Castle, the setting for the smash-hit British TV drama.

We need hardly say that the conversation was animated, and that it bore largely on the life-history of the absent Susy.

Work tickets were bought and given to men and women whose life history they knew, men and women they had known for years.

In a many-celled animal the life history begins with a single cell, the fertilized egg.

Sometimes a complicated life history has arisen from their parasitic habits.

Such is seen in the life history of the liver fluke, a flatworm which kills sheep, and in the tapeworm.

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