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Looking for a solution to this problem, Cajal turned to embryology—also known as ontogeny—which he had first read about in a college textbook.

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“Here phylogeny closely replicates ontogeny” — why yes, of course it does, and a “prolegomenon”? By all means, make mine a large one, no ice.

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Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.

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Are there any biologists out there who can give us an idea how these environmental triggers for gene expression and suppression might affect development were they to occur during ontogeny?

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Distinct routes of lineage development reshape the human blood hierarchy across ontogeny.

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