ontogeny
The process of development of a living organism, including the part of development that takes place after hatching or birth. The idea that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ (the development of an organism goes through the same stages as its evolutionary history), proposed by the German scientist Haeckel, has now been greatly modified.
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