ontogenesis
Americannoun
plural
ontogenesesOther Word Forms
- ontogenetic adjective
- ontogenetical adjective
- ontogenetically adverb
- ontogenic adjective
Example Sentences
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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)
Morphology must be taught as mere descriptive anatomy and systematising, the history of development as mere descriptive ontogenesis.
From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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
A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)
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