phylogenesis
- a variation of phylogeny.
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Despite its intimidating title, “Epigenesis, Ontogenesis, Phylogenesis, Parthenogenesis,” Part IV, was my favorite, a beguiling though still slyly unnerving piece, run through almost continually by a steady unison thematic line on the electronically enhanced piano.
From New York Times • May 24, 2015
The word is used in contrast to Phylogenesis, the becoming of the race or of the species, and it denotes the development of the individual.99.Cf. p.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
When we have rightly understood these, and recognised their great importance in the formation of organisms, we can go a step further and say: Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.*
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
