Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The origin and development of an individual organism from embryo to adult.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ontogenesis . - noun Specifically or specially, the ontogenesis of an individual living organism; the entire development and metamorphosis or life-history of a given organism, as distinguished from
phylogeny .
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- noun The
development of anindividual organism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though to say phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny is obviously wrong.
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More specifically it is through the history of nature as human nature, the enfolding of phylogeny in ontogeny, that psychoanalysis is intergenerated.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Ernst Haeckel using the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Ernst Haeckel using the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Ernst Haeckel using the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Ernst Haeckel using the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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Ernst Haeckel coining the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny to describe the view.
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The "ontogeny" of a single human tribe must not be a recapitulation of the "phelogeny" of the meg-tribe known as a patriarchal state.
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Professor Haeckel, of the famous University of Jena, would not deny this, with all that his new terms "ontogeny" and "phylogeny" may imply.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Haeckel maintained not only that all vertebrate embryos evolved from a common ancestor, but also that in their development ( "ontogeny") they replay ( "recapitulate") their evolutionary history ( "phylogeny").
Louises commented on the word ontogeny
'This starlit world is still the world, presumably, and every part of it, including humankind, is unchanged in its nature still embodying the history that is also its ontogeny. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
April 17, 2013
Louises commented on the word ontogeny
'For Freud, self-alienation is a consequence of human ontogeny’. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
April 20, 2013