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

Synonyms: growth, growing, maturation, development.

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Etymology of 'Ontogeny'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... best be summarised in his own words, "Ontogeny, or the development of the organic individual, being the series of form-changes which each individual organism traverses during the whole time of its individual existence, is immediately conditioned by phylogeny, ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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