: Some researchers apply the term to technology, tracing the "ontogenesis of the information society" from basic signals and gestures to digital telecommunications and AI [22].
Beyond mere biology, human ontogenesis is a "becoming" that integrates nature and nurture [3]. ontogenesis
In the biological sense, ontogenesis describes the chronological phases an organism undergoes to reach its final form: : Some researchers apply the term to technology,
: Our emotional systems are "constructed" through cultural and environmental interactions [3]. Some theories, like those rooted in African indigenous views, see ontogenesis as a journey through spiritual, ancestral, and social selfhood [13, 27]. and social selfhood [13
: The process begins at fertilization [15]. For many species, this includes critical stages like cleavage, gastrulation (the formation of cell layers), and organogenesis [9].