ontogeny
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Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2020
Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.
From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018
Furthermore, their supratemporal fenestrae are proportionally small and become smaller during ontogeny.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012
It’s as if these two highly esteemed, resolutely quirky filmmakers had been assigned the complementary subjects of ontogeny and eschatology, and responded with their grand, distilled visions.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2011
During the period of the development of the individual, that is to say, during its "ontogeny," these characteristics of the germ become expressed in their final or adult form.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.
