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(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
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How To Use ontogenesis In A Sentence
- And, if categories are not embodied, developmental 'products'. where do you see a link to ontogenesis? Lakoff's View of Metaphors
- The smiling response: A contribution to the ontogenesis of social relations, with the assistance of K. M. Wolf. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
- Ductal plate malformation results from persistence or absence of remodeling of the embryonic ductal plate during ontogenesis.
- B.F. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning, which deals with the ontogenesis of individual behavior, is explicitly based upon the Darwinian selectionist model (Skinner 1981). Evolutionary Epistemology
- Much like in E. Haeckel's quip 'Ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis'. Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6
- Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of phylogenesis, like ontogenesis, being a front-loaded, self-limiting, self-terminating planned process where the environment plays little if any role outside of providing triggers to proceed to the next stage of diversification. Nobel Laureate: "Intelligent Design" is An Attack on All of Science - The Panda's Thumb
- The state of being whose ontogenesis we explore has overwhelmingly included such experiences. Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Lecture
- It was both ontogenesis as the origin and development of an individual being, and the adaptation, in the nature of that individual, specifically to the exploration of ontogenesis, the origin and development of the individual being. Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Lecture
- In this highly influential account, masturbation, as Laqueur puts it, "became a part of ontogenesis: we pass through masturbation, we build on it, as we become sexual adults. Me, Myself, and I
- The goals of this study were to examine how DMP1 controls dentin mineralization and odontogenesis in vivo.