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English
Etymology
Simplified learned borrowing from German Blastophylogenie, itself from blasto- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of blasto- + phylogeny to blasto- (“biological organs”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
Noun
blastophyly (uncountable)
- (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of the forms of entire individuals rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
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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 Ontophyly and Phylophyly. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.