ontogenesis

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

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

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 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Haeckel demonstrates the parallelism between ontogenesis and philogenesis—between the successive forms in the evolution of the embryo and the successive forms of the individual in the evolution of a race.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

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

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Freud, Sigmund