ontogenesis

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But ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

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

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

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

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent