ontogenesis

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Why does he not labour at that hitherto quite unworked-out branch, physiogenesis, at the history of the evolution of functions, at the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of vital processes?

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

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

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

"We also believe," he added, growing bolder, "in the fundamental, biogenetic law that ontogenesis is an abridged repetition of philogenesis."

From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Martin, Helen Reimensnyder

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