Meaning of physiogeny | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of the evolution of functions and vital activities by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.

historical, rare, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Es wird daher erst die Aufgabe einer zukünftigen Physiogenie sein, die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Functionen mit gleichem Eifer und Erfolge in Angriff zu nehmen, wie dies für die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Formen von der Morphogenie längst geschehen ist.”

It will, therefore, be the task of a future Physiogeny to grasp the history of the evolution of the functions with the same earnestness, and with the same success, with which Morphogeny has long ago undertaken the study of the history of the evolution of forms.

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