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English
Etymology 1
From blasto- (“growth”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
blastogeny (usually uncountable, plural blastogenies)
- (dated) Blastogenesis.
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from German Blastogenie, itself from blasto- + -genie; equivalent to blasto- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
blastogeny (usually uncountable, plural blastogenies)
- (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.[1]
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- ^ 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 Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.