ontogeny

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Looking for a solution to this problem, Cajal turned to embryology—also known as ontogeny—which he had first read about in a college textbook.

From Scientific American

“Here phylogeny closely replicates ontogeny” — why yes, of course it does, and a “prolegomenon”? By all means, make mine a large one, no ice.

From New York Times

Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.

From Washington Post

Are there any biologists out there who can give us an idea how these environmental triggers for gene expression and suppression might affect development were they to occur during ontogeny?

From New York Times

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

From Nature