biogeny
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]biogeny (uncountable)
Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from German Biogenie, itself from bio- + -genie; equivalent to bio- (“life”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
[edit]biogeny (uncountable)
- (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]
Hyponyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.