blastophyly

English

Etymology

Simplified learned borrowing from German Blastophylogenie, itself from blasto- +‎ Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of blasto- +‎ phylogeny to blasto- (“biological organs”) +‎ -phyly (“tribehood”).

Noun

blastophyly (uncountable)

  1. (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.[1]

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  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 Ontophyly and Phylophyly. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.
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