ontogenesis
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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 Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Mott
It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
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
"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
