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Abiogenesis

noun

A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter. Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation.

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... in abiogenesis, or the so-called 'spontaneous' generation of the lower forms of life, which was accepted by all the philosophers of antiquity, held its ground down to the middle of the seventeenth century. Notwithstanding the frequent citation of ...

— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley

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... investigation has only brought out into greater prominence the accuracy of Harvey's conception of the nature and mode of development of germs, it has as distinctly tended to disprove the occurrence of equivocal generation, or abiogenesis, in the present course of nature. In the immense majority of both plants and animals, it is certain that the germ is not merely a body in which life is dormant or potential, but that it is itself simply a detached portion of the substance of a pre-existing living body; and the evidence has yet ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

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