ontogenesis

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But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.

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

Morphology must be taught as mere descriptive anatomy and systematising, the history of development as mere descriptive ontogenesis.

From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Huxley, Thomas Henry

This exceedingly important larval form, the "gastrula," makes its appearance in the ontogenesis of all tribes of animals.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

This resemblance is so close in the main features that we have only to repeat what we have already said of the ontogenesis of the Amphioxus.

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