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We have concentrated the full force of our discussion upon an example drawn from phylogenesis.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.

From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)

It is probable that the sensitive and travelling leucocytes of our invertebrate ancestors have powerfully co-operated for millions of years in the phylogenesis of the advancing animal organisation.

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

Both states, hypnosis and group formation, are an inherited deposit from the phylogenesis of the human libido—hypnosis in the form of a predisposition, and the group, besides this, as a direct survival.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund

Ontogenesis, on-tō-jen′e-sis, n. the history of the individual development of an organised being as distinguished from phylogenesis and biogenesis—also Ontog′eny.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various