ontogeny
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Martin starts rambling off a list of words: thaumatology, ontology, eschatology, epistemology, phenomenology, teleology, etiology, ontogeny.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2020
The book concludes with a mammoth 120-page chapter recapitulating the ontogeny of his thought.
From Nature ● Sep. 8, 2015
A computational analysis of limb and body dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with implications for locomotion, ontogeny, and growth.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012
It’s as if these two highly esteemed, resolutely quirky filmmakers had been assigned the complementary subjects of ontogeny and eschatology, and responded with their grand, distilled visions.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2011
In its chief outlines ontogeny is determined by phylogeny by means of the laws of heredity, even when it is only an abridged recapitulation.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
