Definition of ONTOGENY. Meaning of ONTOGENY. Synonyms of ONTOGENY

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Definition of ONTOGENY

Ontogeny
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 history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

Meaning of ONTOGENY from wikipedia

- Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from...
- embryological parallelism—often expressed using Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—is a historical hypothesis that the development...
- Ontogeny in a psychoanalytical context is the development of the whole organism, viewed from the light of occurrences during the life, not in the last...
- than the aggregate of capabilities of the individual organisms. Colony ontogeny refers to the developmental process and progression of a colony. It describes...
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which he explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny)...
- expanded upon Freud's concepts of ontogeny and phylogeny, alongside which Fanon placed sociogeny. Freud emplo**** ontogeny, a term borrowed from the field...
- (mechanism/causation), and even the process of an individual's development (ontogeny). This schema constitutes a basic framework of the overlapping behavioural...
- recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"), wrongly claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes...
- a mouth at one end and an **** at the other. Which end forms first in ontogeny is a criterion used to classify bilaterian animals into protostomes and...
- representing various different ages has allowed paleontologists to determine the ontogeny, or change during growth, of this species. During growth the lower legs...