biogeneticadj.

1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. i. 8 The text of the biogenetic first principle is vitiated.

1882 R. Meldola tr. A. Weismann Stud. Theory Descent iii. 611 A corollary to the ‘fundamental biogenetic law’ first enunciated by..Haeckel.

1934 Nature 10 Feb. 199/1 In our judgment the formulation of this biogenetic law was the greatest service which Haeckel did to the science of zoology.

1954 L. Carmichael Man. Child Psychol. (ed. 2) xii. 735/1 The first use to which psychologists put ethnological data was in constructing biogenetic theories in which the postnatal behavior of the child was regarded as recapitulating the past history of the race... This old biogenetic theory continues to crop up in the literature, and psychologists continue to make investigations to disprove it.

1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) ii. 47/1 In embryology and in palaeontology there is very little evidence for this.., and since the widespread acceptance of heterochrony Haeckel's ‘biogenetic law’, as it was called, has been very largely discarded.

1890 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 1 73 Sociology is an attempt to account for the origin, growth, structure and activities of human society by the operation of physical, biogenetic, and psychogenetic causes, working together in a process of evolution.

1906 J. R. Parke Human Sexuality ix. 397 This definition involves the much disputed question of prenatal influences, the theory of ‘transmitted tendencies’, and the bearing of other primordial agencies on the biogenetic basis of delinquent, as of normal, humanity.

1933 L. E. Hinsie in C. A. Murchison Handbk. Child Psychol. 190 What may be called ‘the method of co-twin control’..is proposed as an experimental method for analyzing biogenetic problems such as the relations of growth and learning in infancy.

1977 C. E. Izard Human Emotions (1978) 311 Kraines (1957) presented a rather detailed biogenetic theory of depression. He considered the etiology of depression to be essentially physiological (hereditary and hormonal influences).

2003 A. S. Gurman & S. B. Messer Essent. Psychotherapies (ed. 2) viii At the biogenetic level, postmodern psychotherapists recognize that some personal difficulties can have physiological origins.

1930 Chem. Rev. 7 41 Biogenetic relationships... Close structural relationships are often observed to exist between the individual components of a particular essential oil.

1978 Further Perspectives Org. Chem. (CIBA Symp. No. 53) 131 Its strategy is clearly similar to that of the biogenetic route to the tropane skeleton.

1997 Harper's Mag. Apr. 47/2 I learned about the thirty-eight different alkaloids that have been found in somniferum, the ‘biogenetic pathways’ from thebaine to morphine, [etc.]

1910 Trans. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 3 82 I consider these chromatin granules to be derived from spirochætes, and, further, to be connected with them biogenetically.

1969 Nature 10 May 576/2 The diterpenoid alkaloids..can be derived biogenetically from an isoprenoid pathway.

1992 Utne Reader Mar.–Apr. 68 Looking forward in time, a biogenetically engineered future also seems rife with potential creative catastrophes.

2004 Bryologist 107 158/1 All three are also closely biogenetically related to salazinic acid.