Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The genesis or evolution of the forms of matter which manifest the phenomena of life.
- noun The science or doctrine of biogenesis; the history of organic evolution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the production of living organisms from other living organisms; same as
biogenesis{1} .
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- noun
biogenesis
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- noun the production of living organisms from other living organisms
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Examples
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Thirdly, the several biological sciences which describe the development of organisms are comprised under the general name of morphogeny (morphe and genea, "origin"), or biogeny.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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We do not find desire, as here understood, in plants and the lowest development of animal life, it being particularly an attribute of the higher biogeny.
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When we look back on this period we may ask, What has been accomplished during it by the fundamental law of biogeny?
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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This is a discovery made by recent research, and it is most clearly and correctly expressed in the comprehensive law which I have called "the fundamental law of organic evolution," or "the fundamental law of biogeny."
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In view of these facts, we may now give the following more precise expression to our chief law of biogeny: The evolution of the foetus (or ontogenesis) is a condensed and abbreviated recapitulation of the evolution of the stem (or phylogenesis); and this recapitulation is the more complete in proportion as the original development (or palingenesis) is preserved by a constant heredity; on the other hand, it becomes less complete in proportion as a varying adaptation to new conditions increases the disturbing factors in the development (or cenogenesis).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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