phylembryogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theory put forth by Russian palaeontologist Severtsov, postulating that phylogenetic changes in organisms are conditioned by ontogenetic alterations, in that certain events are added, modified or deleted in the development of an embryo based on the events of ancestral development.

Word forms

phylembryogenesis
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