ontogenesis
Americannoun
plural
ontogenesesOther Word Forms
- ontogenetic adjective
- ontogenetical adjective
- ontogenetically adverb
- ontogenic adjective
Example Sentences
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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)
But these efforts were so seriously marred by ignorance of comparative anatomy, an imperfect acquaintance with ontogenesis, and a complete neglect of phylogenesis, that they could not have more than a passing success.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 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)
There has been no dearth of attacks—often violent attacks—on my conception of an intimate causal connection between ontogenesis and phylogenesis; but no other satisfactory explanation of these important phenomena has yet been offered to us.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
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