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Abiogenesis

noun
1.
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 phrase, wrongfully ...
— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley


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