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 Tyler, John Mason

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 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

This exceedingly important larval form, the "gastrula," makes its appearance in the ontogenesis of all tribes of animals.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)