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
Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.
From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018
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 follows that the apparent homogeneity is, in reality, latent complexity which becomes patent during the progress of ontogeny.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
