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geneagenesis|ˌdʒɛniːəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs|
[f. Gr. γενεά race, stock + γένεσις generation.]
Alternation of generation (see alternate 2 b).
So ˌgeneageˈnetic [cf. genetic] a., pertaining to geneagenesis.
1864H. Lawson tr. De Quatrefages' Metamorph. Transl. Pref. 8 In the following pages the author has..reduced all the varieties of generation to one common law, which he has termed Genea-genesis. The expression itself, simply meaning the development of generations, does not involve a theory, although it is associated with one. Ibid. xvi. 166, I have been endeavouring to show how the knowledge of geneagenetic phenomena was gradually arrived at. |