biogeny

English

Etymology 1

From bio- +‎ -geny.

Noun

biogeny (uncountable)

  1. Biogenesis.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from German Biogenie, itself from bio- +‎ -genie; equivalent to bio- (“life”) +‎ -geny (“origin”).

Noun

biogeny (uncountable)

  1. (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of evolutionary history not only phylogenically, by also by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.[1]
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References

  1. ^ Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.

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