ontogenesis
Americannoun
plural
ontogenesesOther Word Forms
- ontogenetic adjective
- ontogenetical adjective
- ontogenetically adverb
- ontogenic adjective
Example Sentences
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It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.
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Haeckel demonstrates the parallelism between ontogenesis and philogenesis—between the successive forms in the evolution of the embryo and the successive forms of the individual in the evolution of a race.
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This exceedingly important larval form, the "gastrula," makes its appearance in the ontogenesis of all tribes of animals.
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But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
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Morphology must be taught as mere descriptive anatomy and systematising, the history of development as mere descriptive ontogenesis.
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