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

How insignificant are these various periods to the long period originally required; yet in these short periods the whole phylogeny is run through in the ontogeny or the history of the development of the egg.

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