phylembryogenesis
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noun
- 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.
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