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
Later the cell generations of an ontogeny are united by parts into plant individuals; the ontogenetic period consists of a cycle of multicellular and unicellular, or only of multicellular plant generations.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
