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noun
The study of the evolution of forms by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, rare, uncountable, usually
Qualifier: theory of recapitulation
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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History
Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphontogenie, itself from morpho- + Ontogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + ontogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -geny (“origin”). The simplification means that the term is also used to translate German Morphogenie, the distinction between Morphontogenie and Morphogenie not being made in English.
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