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A purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
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ontogenesis
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" ...
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n. the arising or development of an individual organism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ontogenesis \On`to*gen"e*sis\, Ontogeny \On*tog"e*ny\, n. [See Ontology , and Genesis .] (Biol.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism; the history of the evolution of ...
Usage examples of ontogenesis.
Ede himself, as God rapidly continued his ontogenesis toward the infinite.
Stop having children until ontogenesis can be described by a set of differential equations?
This time, it was only Tamara who would relive a part of her life, and so Danlo would be free to guide her backward through the stages of her ontogenesis from fertilized ovum to adult human being.
He wanted to tell Hanuman that the ontogenesis of man into god was dangerous beyond belief and fraught with shaida.
Cognitive developmental psychology has shown that in ontogenesis there are different stages of moral consciousness, stages that can be described in particular as preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional patterns of problem-solving [which we will explain later].