ontogenetic
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Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
“The organism is not specified by its genes,” Lewontin insisted, “but is a unique outcome of an ontogenetic process that is contingent on the sequence of environments in which it occurs.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
“Negative genetic correlation for adult fitness between sexes reveals ontogenetic conflict in Drosophila.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2010
“Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator-free islands.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2010
We may even go a step farther and say that the ontogenetic development of the higher apes and of man is such that the young forms are more alike than the old ones.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
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