cormogeny

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from German Cormogenie, itself from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós) +‎ -genie; equivalent to Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “tree-trunk”) +‎ -geny (“origin”).

Noun

cormogeny (usually uncountable, plural cormogenies)

(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of the evolution of the forms of nationalities, ethnicities, races, etc. by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.^[1]

Usage notes

As the theory of recapitulation presupposes "lower"/"less advanced" and "higher"/"more advanced" evolutionary forms, its application to nationalities, ethnicities, and races is, by modern standards, problematic from the outset.

Antonyms

cormophyly

Hypernyms

morphogeny

Coordinate terms

References

“cormogeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

^ 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.

[haeckel-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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