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• n  (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• There's been the wonderful discovery of the Dikika baby which is telling us interesting things about the ontogeny, the growth and development, of our ancestors.
• My philosophy prof says that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

• growth
• growing
• maturation
• development
• ontogenesis

• nondevelopment