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noun
The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, rare, uncountable
Qualifier: theory of recapitulation
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
