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ontogeny

[on-toj-uh-nee] / ɒnˈtɒdʒ ə ni /


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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

Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.

From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018

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

In its chief outlines ontogeny is determined by phylogeny by means of the laws of heredity, even when it is only an abridged recapitulation.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel


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