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Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

“The organism is not specified by its genes,” Lewontin insisted, “but is a unique outcome of an ontogenetic process that is contingent on the sequence of environments in which it occurs.”

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016

“Negative genetic correlation for adult fitness between sexes reveals ontogenetic conflict in Drosophila.”

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2010

“Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator-free islands.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2010

The actual ontogenetic development of the gastrula from the blastula furnishes sound evidence as to the phylogenetic origin of the Gastraea from the Blastaea.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August