"laws of development" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the principles or rules that govern the growth and progress of something. Example: According to the laws of development, every individual must go through certain stages of cognitive, physical, and emotional growth in order to reach maturity.
Xue Muqiao, 'Economic Work Must Grasp the Objective Laws of Development' in B. Szajkowski (ed)., Documents on Communist Affairs 1980.
Another famous book of his, "The Poverty of Historicism," attacked the popular notion that history had a shape, a progression, followed laws of development.
Kasarda is less co-author than inspirational Yoda, supplying the vision and the immutable "laws" of development for 21st-century life — emphasis on location, accessibility and speed.
Constantin Stere, the chief theorist of Romanian populism, argued at the turn of the century that Romania could become a prosperous, modern state by following the "laws" of development specific to agrarian societies.
Finally, a theorem of mathematics, Godel's theory, has been interpreted to suggest that the initial conditions and laws of development of a mathematician's brain could not fully determine which mathematical conjectures he sees to be true.
"And this is one of the most interesting and encouraging phenomena of our time the failure of the historicist propaganda for the modern in music". Another famous book of his, "The Poverty of Historicism," attacked the popular notion that history had a shape, a progression, followed laws of development.
One can generalize this example to all generic state-space processes with indeterministic laws of developments, namely Markov processes.
Mendel believed that these traits were related by a "constant law of development" to certain "elements" or "factors" in the reproductive cells from which organisms developed.
At Marx's funeral in Highgate Cemetery, Engels declared that Marx had made two great discoveries, the law of development of human history and the law of motion of bourgeois society.
According to a glossy magazine placed in every room, the owner understood "the law of development of objective reality" and was someone who "spends all energy throughout his life in inheriting and flourishing Tibetan culture".
Dr. Gauthier and Dr. Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, objected to the assumption by Dr. Burke and Dr. Feduccia that the 2-3-4 digit pattern was "a law of development everywhere" and that the 1-2-3 patheropod theropodinosaursrs was an aberration.
