zoogenyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoogeny_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoogeny, n.
Revised 2017

zoogenynoun

Now historical.
  1. 1826–
    The process of animal reproduction and development; the origin or evolution of animals or animal species. Also: a theory, doctrine, or account of this; the branch of study concerned with this. Cf. zoogony n.
    1. 1826
      The first and principal one, the law on which all zoogeny reposes, is the eccentric development of animals.
      North Amer. Med. & Surg. Journal vol. 1 129
    2. 1844
      Comparative Embryology..has of recent years become one of the very fundamental parts of Zoogeny.
      Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Journal Pract. Medicine vol. 41 463
    3. 1858
      [Oken's Classification] Biology. Organosophy, Phytogeny, Phyto-physiology, Phytology, Zoogeny, Physiology [etc.].
      H. Spencer, Essays 1st Series iv. 166
    4. 1875
      When Zoogeny replaces Zoology, and the question of origin is mooted, the two hypotheses of Creation and Natural Selection struggle for supremacy.
      G. H. Lewes, Problems of Life & Mind 1st Series vol. II. iv. 85
    5. 1917
      He still holds fast to the main thesis of transcendentalism—..the repetition in the embryogeny of the higher animals of the ‘zoogeny’ of the lower.
      E. S. Russell, Form & Function xii. 206
    6. 2006
      Empedocles's biological explanation of zoogeny (the origin of species).
      E. Visnovsky in H. J. Birx, Encycl. Anthrop. vol. II. 810/1

zoogeny, n. was revised in June 2017.

zoogeny, n. was last modified in July 2023.