ontogeny

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So whatever advances have been made in supportive parenting, the process by which a gay man finds himself and his people is much the same as it ever was: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2018

Ontogeny: the development of the individual as distinguished from that of the species: see phylogeny.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The chief source that it draws upon for facts is "Ontogeny," or embryology, the science of the development of the individual organism.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Ontogeny thus represents, to a certain degree, palæontological development abbreviated or epitomised.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Ontogeny teaches us to understand the evolution of the will in the individual child.

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.