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
A computational analysis of limb and body dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with implications for locomotion, ontogeny, and growth.
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
A definite and previously limited growth continues, or a definite formation of parts of an ontogeny which has previously been present but once, is repeated.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
