- a variation of ontogeny.
ontogenesis
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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
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
It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
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
There has been no dearth of attacks—often violent attacks—on my conception of an intimate causal connection between ontogenesis and phylogenesis; but no other satisfactory explanation of these important phenomena has yet been offered to us.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
