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
The book concludes with a mammoth 120-page chapter recapitulating the ontogeny of his thought.
From Nature ● Sep. 8, 2015
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
The fact that two organisms belong to the same line of descent is recognized from the ontogeny of the higher including the ontogeny of the lower.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
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