ontogenesis

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This exceedingly important larval form, the "gastrula," makes its appearance in the ontogenesis of all tribes of animals.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

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

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

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

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 ontogenesis would have furnished us with facts no less cogent.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur