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Then only can the course of the psyche be comprehended, ontogenetically as well as phylogenetically, according to a dynamic scheme as it were.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The elaborate alimentary canal of the higher animals develops ontogenetically from the same simple primitive gut of the gastrula.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

The shape of the snout and the associated cranial elements of S. sordida vary geographically and ontogenetically.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

It is both phylogenetically and ontogenetically an independent secondary formation, a later accession to the primary internal ear.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

And what is true ontogenetically, is of course true phylogenetically.

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)