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

The book concludes with a mammoth 120-page chapter recapitulating the ontogeny of his thought.

From Nature • Sep. 8, 2015

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

Just so the succeeding stages of ontogeny depend for the time being on the development of the determinants having their origin in the corresponding stage of phylogeny.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von