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单词 abiogenesis
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abiogenesisn.

Brit. /ˌeɪbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌbaɪoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: a- prefix6, bio- comb. form, -genesis comb. form.
Etymology: < a- prefix6 + bio- comb. form + -genesis comb. form. Compare German Abiogenesis (c1873 or earlier), and also ancient Greek ἄβιος not to be lived or survived ( < ἀ- a- prefix6 + βίος life: see bio- comb. form). Compare biogenesis n.The term was introduced by T. H. Huxley in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Liverpool in September 1870 (see quot. 1870). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ:bioˌdʒe·nėsis) /ˌæbɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/.
Biology and Geology.
1. The supposed production of certain living organisms directly from inanimate matter, rather than by the reproduction of existing organisms; spontaneous generation. Opposed to biogenesis n. 1a. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > spontaneous
spontaneous generation1656
equivocal generation1658
heterogeny1863
autogeny1867
abiogenesis1870
autogony1870
archebiosis1872
abiogeny1874
archigony1876
plasmogeny1876
plasmogony1904
biopoesis1953
1870 T. H. Huxley in Nature 15 Sept. 401/1 I term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not-living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi Pref. p. viii There are some who still think that Fungi and Bacteria..are or may be produced by spontaneous..generation (abiogenesis),..that is from inorganic matter showing only chemical predisposition to organisation.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 976 There was a widespread persistence of the old belief that living creatures could arise from appropriate non-living matter, insects from a carcass, gordian worms from horse-hairs, and internal parasites in man from nothing in particular. This was the theory of present-day spontaneous generation (abiogenesis)—a false view that has died hard.
1974 Origins of Life 5 529 ‘Biogenesis’ is the origin of life from life; ‘abiogenesis’, the origin of life from non-living matter.
2000 NewsScan Daily (Electronic text) 30 June I read about..abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud.
2. The original evolution of life or living organisms from inorganic or inanimate substances; archebiosis; = biogenesis n. 1b. Also more widely: the production of organic carbon compounds by processes other than the agency of living organisms.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > processes or types of evolution
transmutation1626
substitution1822
subspeciation1826
metamorphosis1835
phytogenesis1847
phytogeny1850
anamorphosis1852
correlation1859
advergence1861
convergence1861
phylogeny1869
ontogeny1872
recapitulation1874
ontogenesis1875
phylogenesis1875
biogenesis1876
abiogenesis1884
anagenesis1889
tachygenesis1893
orthogenesis1895
adaptive radiation1898
speciation1906
microevolution1911
subspeciation1921
raciation1934
orthogenetics1937
encephalization1938
proterogenesis1938
allomorphosis1941
cladogenesis1953
Wallace effect1966
metachromism1968
punctuation1976
speciational evolution1988
tachygen-
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 50 Haeckel expressly embraces Abiogenesis as [an] integral part of the theory of universal evolution; and Huxley..confesses that if it were given to him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, he should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not-living matter.]
1884 Science 16 May 601/1 The impossibility of abiogenesis now is, therefore, no argument against an abiogenesis once in the early history of the earth.
1957 A. Synge tr. A. I. Oparin Origin Life on Earth (ed. 3) Index 491 Abiogenesis of organic compounds.
1976 A. J. Toynbee & D. Ikeda Choose Life III. x. 249 Regarding the origin of life, modern scientists seem to support the concept of abiogenesis.
1988 Nature 18 Feb. 612/1 Many of the constraints on the mode, environment and timing of abiogenesis are derived from laboratory simulations or from theoretical extrapolations to early terrestrial conditions.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 26 Oct. 16 Evolutionary theory does not deal with how life originally came into existence, a process called abiogenesis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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