"Phylogeny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another order of mind in Hans Driesch. At the time he began his work biologists were largely busy in a region indicated by Darwin, and roughly mapped out by Haeckel—that of phylogeny. From the facts of development of the individual, from the comparison of fossils in successive strata, they set to work at the construction of pedigrees, and strove to bring into line the principles of classification ...
— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler
... task, the first half of the story of the evolution of man in that wider sense in which we understand it here. We must add as the second half—as another and not less important and interesting branch of the science of the evolution of the human stem—phylogeny: this may be described as the science of the evolution of the various animal forms from which the human organism has been developed in the course of countless ages. Everybody now knows of the great scientific activity that was occasioned by ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel
... ecology, oecology; erythroblast [Physio.], gametangium^, gamete, germinal matter, invagination [Biol.]; isogamy^, oogamy^; karyaster^; macrogamete^, microgamete^; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm^, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary^, spermatozoon, trophoplasm^, vacuole, vertebration^, zoogloea^, zygote. Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism. morphology, taxonomy. Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
