ontogeny

• A triumph of the past decade has been the unraveling of the genetics of ontogeny, the transformation of a fertilized embryo into an adult in the course of gestation and infancy. —  Understanding the Genome
• Ernst Haeckel using the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• First-person ontogeny is the aspect of our minds with which we are most familiar. —  Evolution News & Views
• In fact, first-person ontogeny is the only aspect of ourselves with which we are familiar, in the tautological sense that it is the only thing that we actually experience. —  Evolution News & Views
• The "Law of Biogenesis" which is the dignified title Haeckel has given to the discredited recapitulation theory, asserts that the embryological development of the individual (ontogeny), is a brief recapitulation, a summing up, of the stages through which the species passed in the course of its evolution in the geologic past, (phylogeny). —  At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers

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