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

Torosaurus is not Triceratops: ontogeny in chasmosaurine ceratopsids as a case study in dinosaur taxonomy.

From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2013

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

Both causes acting together—the phylogenetic configuration of the idioplasm and the successive morphological stages of development of the individual conditioned on it—necessarily result in the ontogeny being the repetition of the phylogeny.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von