ontogenesis
Americannoun
plural
ontogenesesOther Word Forms
- ontogenetic adjective
- ontogenetical adjective
- ontogenetically adverb
- ontogenic adjective
Example Sentences
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This exceedingly important larval form, the "gastrula," makes its appearance in the ontogenesis of all tribes of animals.
From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund
But these efforts were so seriously marred by ignorance of comparative anatomy, an imperfect acquaintance with ontogenesis, and a complete neglect of phylogenesis, that they could not have more than a passing success.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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
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