ontogenesis
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Why does he not labour at that hitherto quite unworked-out branch, physiogenesis, at the history of the evolution of functions, at the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of vital processes?
From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Thomas Henry Huxley
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 Thomas Henry Huxley
"We also believe," he added, growing bolder, "in the fundamental, biogenetic law that ontogenesis is an abridged repetition of philogenesis."
From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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