ontogeny
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Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2020
Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.
From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018
Torosaurus is not Triceratops: ontogeny in chasmosaurine ceratopsids as a case study in dinosaur taxonomy.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2013
It’s as if these two highly esteemed, resolutely quirky filmmakers had been assigned the complementary subjects of ontogeny and eschatology, and responded with their grand, distilled visions.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2011
What is the meaning of the law "The ontogeny is an epitome of the phylogeny"?Who was Weissman?
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
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