autogenyn.

?1818 J. Stewart Bk. Intellect. Life 71 England seems the only nation that has acquired the plastic power of autogeny in the moral world, as plants or animals generate seed in the physical world.

1858 Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. Oct. 579 He supposes that the anatomical elements of the tooth are spontaneously developed on the surface of the germs,..an action which he and his master, Charles Robin, call autogeny.

1894 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 5 47 Such self-perpetuation of a society we may call autogeny.

1928 Times 24 Sept. 20 The origin of civilizations. Diffusion or autogeny?

1988 PMLA 103 48/2 With its profoundly self-reflective orientation—its redoubled images of spontaneous autogeny, narcissism, and incest—Milton's allegory..drives explanation back deep into the human capacity for self-fashioning.

2003 F. García Martínez & G. P. Luttikhuizen Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome xi. 162 The autogeny of the Phoenix has become a symbol of the ascetic's proleptic realization of the heavenly life.

1867 C. Darwin Let. 28 June in Corr. (2005) XV. 511 These simplest of all organisms, homogeneous, simple, contractile, living lumps of protein, lacking any differentiation of matter,..are extremely odd, and I believe that they facilitate the hypothesis of autogeny considerably.

1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. 339 In spontaneous generation..we must first distinguish two essentially different kinds, viz. autogeny [Ger. Autogonie] and plasmogeny. By autogeny we understand the origin of a most simple organic individual in an inorganic formative fluid.

1900 Trans. Nat. Eclectic Med. Assoc. 28 369 The basis of autogeny is that basis of life, the organic cell, out of which every thing organic has developed.

1936 Parasitol. 28 116 Females of this race lay fertile eggs without any food in the imaginal stage, the ova being matured at the expense of reserves accumulated during larval life (autogeny).

1966 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 12 A very heavy incidence of autogeny (97% of the newly emerged females) was later discovered in the Reading population.

2005 M. J. Lehane Biol. Blood Sucking Insects vi. 110 Facultative autogeny is clearly a useful strategy. Insects for which autogeny is obligatory do not have this choice.