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

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

From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018

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

The fact that two organisms belong to the same line of descent is recognized from the ontogeny of the higher including the ontogeny of the lower.

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