ontogenesis
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Or, briefly stated, ontogenesis, or the embryonic development of the individual, is a brief recapitulation of phylogenesis, or the ancestral development of the phylum or group.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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
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
It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
