Microgenesis refers to the actualization (Aktualgenese) of a cognition over «layers» in mind and brain that retrace growth patterns in phyloontogeny.1 The recapitulation that is the cornerstone of historical theory is a repetition of the antecedents of a behavior that phyletic or
ontogenetic process lays down.
More precisely, the duration of phyletic or
ontogenetic process is not the evolutionary (maturational) history of a species (organism); the former is more accurately the sum of its ontogenies.
Ontogenetic and phylogenetic potentialities are fundamentally different.
The alternative to realization of many
ontogenetic potentialities is death; a child either grows up or dies.
When phylogenetic and
ontogenetic considerations led me to coin this term (in 1968), I was not yet aware that it corresponds more or less to Whitehead's «physical feeling.»
The word he should use here is
ontogenetic.
According to the intention of its founder, genetic epistemology should examine how scientific thinking, as it pertains to the established sciences, becomes possible in the development of the individual from child to adult; genetic epistemology should further ask about the relationships between
this ontogenetic process and the phylogenetic process of the history of humankind as the history of science.
As the name «genetic ontology» indicates, one general assumption is that the human's statements about reality express the experience of a genesis of being — and to be sure in a phylogenetic as well as in
an ontogenetic sense, that is, in the form of an historical - evolutionary as well as an individual process.
This enabled small seedlings to maintain adequate foliar P levels, critical to
their ontogenetic growth.
The purpose of cranial developmental morphology is to explore
the ontogenetic background of various character states expressed in adult forms.
I joined Dr. Kay Holekamp's lab, which focuses on
the ontogenetic development, physiological substrates, and evolution of mammalian behavior, using the free - living spotted hyena as a model species.
However, research to date suggests that measures such as functional diversity or biomass of functional groups may not be directly related to ecosystem impact, due to spatial and
ontogenetic changes in function.
A molecular switch between proliferation and differentiation, maintained by anti-cancer selection, imposes a developmental constraint on
ontogenetic rates and morphological evolution.
Components of the major metazoan developmental signalling pathways, as well as classes of developmental transcription factors, are mostly present in Amphimedon and absent from Monosiga and other non-metazoan genomes13, 14,16,27,29, suggesting that
ontogenetic development, including primary germ cell formation (Supplementary Note 8.4), originated on the metazoan stem3, 11,12.
These mechanisms are studied in normal and pathological conditions, and during
ontogenetic development and ageing.
Primates have large eyes relative to head size, which profoundly influence
the ontogenetic emergence of facial form.
There appear to be significant
ontogenetic impacts and species - specific differences in tolerance to the high CO2 levels.
Only in well - constrained studies where paleoclimatic,
ontogenetic, and taxonomic sources of variability can be controlled, and data sets are very large, may fossil growth ring analysis provide useful paleoecological data.
Keywords: Developmental Science, Probabilistic Epigenesis, Nature - Nurture Debate, Biopsychosocial Model, Self - Organization, Transactional Model,
Ontogenetic Development
Affiliations: Division «Developmental Science and Applied Developmental Psychology», Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany International Max Planck Research School «The Life Course: Evolutionary and
Ontogenetic Dynamics» (LIFE, www.imprs-life.mpg.de), Berlin, Germany
Ontogenetic Development of the Human Sleep - Dream Cycle.
Future research is needed to test the influence of
ontogenetic and hereditary factors on the development of infidelity tendencies.