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

Of the inner factors of ontogeny there is another category that may be called physical, that already spoken of being physiological.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various