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Ontogenetic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the origin and development of individual organisms.





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... of evolution. It indicates that the evolution of intelligence has occurred by a gradual progressive advancement, stages in which reappear as the higher grades of feeble-mindedness. Of course it is not certain that the ontogenetic stages, at which mental development may be arrested, correspond accurately with earlier phylogenetic stages, but the idea receives considerable support from the observed resemblance between the mentality of morons and ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10


Words linked to "Ontogenetic" :   ontogeny, ontogenesis


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