ontogenesis
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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
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
Morphology must be taught as mere descriptive anatomy and systematising, the history of development as mere descriptive ontogenesis.
From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Thomas Henry Huxley
