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ontogeny|ɒnˈtɒdʒɪnɪ|
[f. onto- + Gr. -γενεια birth, production, f. -γενης born, produced.]
1. The origin and development of the individual being; = ontogenesis.
1872Microsc. Jrnl. July 185 ‘The ontogeny of every organism repeats in brief..its phylogeny’, i.e. the individual development of every organism..repeats approximately the development of its race. 1892Mivart Ess. & Crit. II. 337 Remarkable changes during its individual process of development, or, as it is called, during its ‘ontogeny’.
2. The history or science of the development of the individual being; embryology.
1874Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 360 Either we must know what is, or how it came to be what it is; the thing or its history: Ontology or Ontogeny. 1876E. R. Lankester tr. Haeckel's Hist. Creat. I. i. 10 By the history of development, only one part of this science has generally been understood, namely, that of organic individuals, usually called Embryology, but more correctly and comprehensively, Ontogeny. 1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man I. i. 24 Germ-history or Ontogeny, history of the development of the embryo of the individual organism. |