- a variation of ontogeny.
ontogenesis
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"We also believe," he added, growing bolder, "in the fundamental, biogenetic law that ontogenesis is an abridged repetition of philogenesis."
From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
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
It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
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
