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Ontogeny   /ɑntˈɑdʒəni/   Listen
Ontogeny

noun
1.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.  Synonyms: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.






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"Ontogeny" Quotes from Famous Books



... monstrous development of the jaws and teeth, must be explained by arrested development in the fifth or sixth month of ultra-uterine existence, corresponding to the characteristics of inferior races by the usual law of ontogeny which recapitulates phylogeny. But there is a final series of anomalies, the origin of which was formerly wrapped in mystery: plagiocephaly, sclerosis, the thickening of the meninges, cranial asymmetry, and other changes in the cerebral ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero



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