ontogenesis

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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

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

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

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

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 Tyler, John Mason

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 Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August