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ontogenesis

[ahn-toh-jen-uh-sis] / ˌɑn toʊˈdʒɛn ə sɪs /


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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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

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

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

But these efforts were so seriously marred by ignorance of comparative anatomy, an imperfect acquaintance with ontogenesis, and a complete neglect of phylogenesis, that they could not have more than a passing success.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

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

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell

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 Thomas Henry Huxley


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