Haeckel (1875) took cognizance of such facts by classifying as palingenetic the embryonic processes that are trans - mitted by heredity from ancestral forms, in contrast to coenogenetic ones which appear through adaptation to the needs of embryonic or larval life. From Wordnik.com. [RECAPITULATION] Reference
The gastrula stage was the palingenetic repetition of the ancestral form of all Metazoa, the Gastræa. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
It is worthy of note that the help of comparative anatomy is admittedly required in deciding what processes are palingenetic and what cenogenetic (p. 412). From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
In this matter, we must distinguish quite clearly between palingenetic and kenogenetic phenomena, between the original, inherited evolution and the later, vitiated evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Parsees -- according to the names they received at different periods -- have preserved the main points of palingenetic instruction up to the present, and, from time to time, have set them forth in the most charming style of Oriental poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
Memetic uptake of palingenetic ideas debarred by emotional repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
And since men's ideas make the world, our myths and philosophies - for example, palingenetic nationalism, Christianity, liberalism - reflect that. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
The difficulty in memetic transfer of palingenetic philosophies is related to the motivation structure driving the adoption of these philosophies. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
Arms races take place within palingenetic white society, favoring those who can outwardly signal the existence of these mental states more unambiguously than others. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
The best theory I've ever heard centers it around an idea of "palingenetic ultranationalism," or an extremist nationalist belief in the need for and imminence of a great national rebirth. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
■ The "palingenetic necessity" is not arguable through science, since our understanding of social and political process models can't be said yet to have achieved the objectivity and predictive power necessary to constitute a science. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
Any action, thought, statement or feeling can therefore be evaluated in terms of its effect on such a distant, yet morally-loaded abstraction as "survival of our people", by looking at its effects on the process/machine of palingenetic politics. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
My definition of palingenetic politics is this: a state that is ideologically committed to purifying the life and the blood of the people, and to freeing and aggrandizing them through actions predicated on zero-sum competition between in - and out-groups. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
This is Griffin’s one sentence definition of fascism: “Fascism is a political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism:] Reference
"In the evolutionary appreciation of the facts of embryology we must take particular care to distinguish sharply and clearly between the primary, palingenetic evolutionary processes and the secondary, cenogenetic processes. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
The palingenetic phenomena, or embryonic. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
As examples of palingenetic processes in the development of Amniotes, for instance, may be quoted the separation of two primary germ-layers, the formation of a simple notochord between medullary tube and alimentary canal, the appearance of a simple cartilaginous cranium, of the gill-arches and their vessels, of the primitive kidneys, the primitive tubular heart, the paired aortæ and the cardinal veins, the hermaphroditic rudiment of the gonads, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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