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ontogenesis

noun as in development

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The ontogenesis of any given living organism is a short, condensed recapitulation of its ancestral history or of its phylogenesis.

It summarises the history of species; ontogenesis, we are told, reproduces phylogenesis.

It studies man from two different points of view: his development (ontogenesis), and his variations.

It is naturally no easy matter to trace the ontogenesis of the herd instinct.

This is, of course, no reversal of dominance in ontogeny, but mere ontogenesis of pigmentation.

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