ontogenesis
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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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
Or, briefly stated, ontogenesis, or the embryonic development of the individual, is a brief recapitulation of phylogenesis, or the ancestral development of the phylum or group.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
A similar connection determines the relation between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
