Developmental biologists, for example, are rethinking the degree to which
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Victor Rosenthal, a psychologist at INSERM (a French research consortium), states that microgenesis refers to the development of thoughts and percepts in immediate experience, and-apropos of the phenomenological ground Dialogicality in Development seems to cover unintentionally-he believes that microgenesis substantiates a phenomenological theory of cognition.
Josephs, Ingrid, E. (Ed.). Dialogicality in Development
According to a paleontologic adage,
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. In the embryology of present-day mammals, the developmental process in the bones and muscles of the first and second branchial arches involves a re-enactment of the evolutionary process than begot the mammalian middle ear.
Phylogeny and embryology of the facial nerve and related structures. Part I: phylogeny
Since we were babies, we have listened to stories:
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, story-wise.
Radio's relentless pace dictates different coverage; `the doing of science is rich territory for radio, since it's full of sound, if not fury.' (Science Journalism)
Taking self-position seriously in your writing matters because "
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." That was the first sentence of my comparative anatomy textbook in college, the one that almost sent me running to drop/add.
"But she can't find her [V.O.] key."
Both movements had their beginnings in the "
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" theory (discussed by this author in Adolescence, No.
Pre-school responses to the 19th-century youth crisis