ontogenesis
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Why does he not labour at that hitherto quite unworked-out branch, physiogenesis, at the history of the evolution of functions, at the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of vital processes?
From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Thomas Henry Huxley
It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
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
A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
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
