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English
Etymology 1
From histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
histogeny (usually uncountable, plural histogenies)
- (dated) Histogenesis.
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from German Histogenie, itself from histo- + -genie; equivalent to histo- (“biological tissue”) + -geny (“origin”).
Noun
histogeny (uncountable)
- (historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The study of the evolution of the forms of biological cells and tissues by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
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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.