ontogeny

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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

The book concludes with a mammoth 120-page chapter recapitulating the ontogeny of his thought.

From Nature • Sep. 8, 2015

Furthermore, their supratemporal fenestrae are proportionally small and become smaller during ontogeny.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2012

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

It is true that there are nonconformities to the general law that individual development tends to recapitulate racial history, or that ontogeny tends to recapitulate phylogeny.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)