ontogenesis

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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

But these efforts were so seriously marred by ignorance of comparative anatomy, an imperfect acquaintance with ontogenesis, and a complete neglect of phylogenesis, that they could not have more than a passing success.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

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

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