- a variation of ontogeny.
ontogenesis
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Morphology must be taught as mere descriptive anatomy and systematising, the history of development as mere descriptive ontogenesis.
From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Huxley, Thomas Henry
A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)
Or, briefly stated, ontogenesis, or the embryonic development of the individual, is a brief recapitulation of phylogenesis, or the ancestral development of the phylum or group.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
"We also believe," he added, growing bolder, "in the fundamental, biogenetic law that ontogenesis is an abridged repetition of philogenesis."
From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Martin, Helen Reimensnyder
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
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