单词 | abiogenesis |
释义 | abiogenesisn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1870 |
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