Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ontogenetic manner; by way of ontogenesis.
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- adverb
ontogenically
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P.Z. Myers wishes you an ontogenetically deep Paul Nelson Day, as well as highlighting a bizarre and disturbing religious outburst.
Around the Blogosphere James F. McGrath 2008
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Bermúdez (1998), to mention one further philosopher in the analytic tradition, argues that there are a variety of nonconceptual forms of self-consciousness that are “logically and ontogenetically more primitive than the higher forms of self-consciousness that are usually the focus of philosophical debate” (1998, 274; also see Poellner 2003).
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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The life of the Church is like that both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
Archive 2005-07-01 Mike L 2005
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The life of the Church is like that both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
The Sower of the Tares Mike L 2005
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The second is that the evolutionary paradigm requires a strong, massive, and hard-wired modularity in the brain areas responsible for higher-order cognitive functions, and this sort of modularity may not be the way cortical regions work, and what modularity does exist may be ontogenetically designed, rather than phylogenetically.
What, If Anything, Can Evolutionary Stories Tell Us About Human Cognition? Chris 2004
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The second is that the evolutionary paradigm requires a strong, massive, and hard-wired modularity in the brain areas responsible for higher-order cognitive functions, and this sort of modularity may not be the way cortical regions work, and what modularity does exist may be ontogenetically designed, rather than phylogenetically.
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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As I have before remarked, children utter vowel sounds before consonants, and I used this as an argument that phonation preceded articulation; but there is another reason for supposing that articulate sounds are of later development phylogenetically, as well as ontogenetically.
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It is both phylogenetically and ontogenetically an independent secondary formation, a later accession to the primary internal ear.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The elaborate alimentary canal of the higher animals develops ontogenetically from the same simple primitive gut of the gastrula.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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We have previously seen how this very rudimentary beginning of the skull in man is formed ontogenetically from the "head-plates," and thus the fore end of the chorda is enclosed in the base of the skull.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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