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

Torosaurus is not Triceratops: ontogeny in chasmosaurine ceratopsids as a case study in dinosaur taxonomy.

From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2013

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

But in these writings his main argument is that of his concluding chapter: the spontaneous adaptiveness of the organism, which nullifies all contingent theories to explain the purposiveness in ontogeny and phylogeny.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf