The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ontogenetic \On`to*ge*net"ic\, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. -- On`to*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. of or relating to ontogenesis
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the origin and development of individual organisms; "ontogenetic development"
Usage examples of "ontogenetic".
Since ad hominem seems to be the mode of argument here, my own observation is that these particular critics seem to gravitate to the past phylogenetic structure that corresponds with the ontogenetic structure in themselves that is immediately prior to their failed personal integration.
Past actuals (structures already laid down in evolution but subsequently submerged) include the phylogenetic heritage and the ontogenetic heritage (from material/plant/animal identification to perinatal matrices to Freudian psychodynamic unconscious to collective archaic unconscious).