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...
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which he explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny)...
- 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...
- embryological parallelism—often expressed using Ernst Haeckel's phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—is a historical hypothesis that the development...
- than the aggregate of capabilities of the individual organisms. Colony ontogeny refers to the developmental process and progression of a colony. It describes...
- (mechanism/causation), and even the process of an individual's development (ontogeny). This schema constitutes a basic framework of the overlapping behavioural...
- ovular fenestrae in the frill. Paleontologists investigating dinosaur ontogeny in Montana's **** Cr**** Formation have recently presented evidence that...
- The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known, particularly outside of North America, as simply the grey squirrel, is a tree squirrel in...
- Spinosaurus (/ˌspaɪnəˈsɔːrəs/; lit. 'spine lizard') is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian stage...
- Alioramus (/ˌælioʊˈreɪməs/; meaning 'different branch') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. It currently...