Ontogeny

... is change in the properties of populations of organisms or groups of such populations, over the course of generations. The development, or ontogeny, of an individual organism is not considered evolution: individual organisms do not evolve. The changes in populations that are considered ...

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... happened up until the first multicellular organism. Of course the problem with macro-evolution is it's empirically unprovable (apart from "ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny")There's just no way to observe it in action. In answer to your question, new races and subspecies of animals ...

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Ontogeny and it's relation to ontology

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... "- the most important process might be the one that produces extra copies of genes." Now, that’s a very interesting comment. ""Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" hasn't been an accepted concept for a very long time." I thought it was crap the first time I heard it and ...

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... you believe it to be different it must therefore, be different. If you argue that chimp and man are close relatives, then, if it is also true that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, there should be some point where both embryos are identical. Is there? (I withdraw that; it isn’t really a fair assertion. ...

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