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The process of an individual organism growing organically
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ontogeny
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Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis ) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ...
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 ...
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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" ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"development of an individual," 1872, from onto- + -geny . Related: Ontogenic ; ontogenesis .
Wiktionary
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n. The development of an individual organism.
Usage examples of ontogeny.
Up from Eden and The Atman project are two books that cover the micro and macro branch of human evolution in, respectively, phylogeny and ontogeny.
So as we pick up the story of ontogeny at the archaic and magic structures, and follow it into the realms of the superconscious, it is these two distortionsreductionism and elevationismthat we will most want to try to avoid.
We may distinguish between four different dimensional frameworks: autopoiesis, ontogeny, phylogeny, anagenesis.
Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny -- what is it but to say that proctoscopy repeats hagiography?
This was the basis of Spielman's Law -- ontogeny repeats cosmogeny -- and there was much more to it and to the science of cyclology whereof it was first principle.