ontogenesis
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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
There has been no dearth of attacks—often violent attacks—on my conception of an intimate causal connection between ontogenesis and phylogenesis; but no other satisfactory explanation of these important phenomena has yet been offered to us.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
Haeckel demonstrates the parallelism between ontogenesis and philogenesis—between the successive forms in the evolution of the embryo and the successive forms of the individual in the evolution of a race.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
