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Definition of Autogeny

1. Noun. A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter.

Definition of Autogeny

1. the production of living organisms from inanimate matter [n -NIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autogeny

Literary usage of Autogeny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inductive Sociology: A Syllabus of Methods, Analyses and Classifications by Franklin Henry Giddings (1901)
"autogeny Besides amalgamation there is another process which creates and ... DEGREE OF autogeny A 1. Excess of Number of Individuals born and living in ..."

2. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"By autogeny we understand the origin of a most simple organic individual in an inorganic formative fluid, that is, in a fluid which contains the fundamental ..."

3. Biology, General and Medical by Joseph McFarland (1920)
"... or else became divided up in the course of autogeny into groups, which were passed separately to the same region, viz., that of the bud. ..."

4. Evolution and Dogma by John Augustine Zahm (1896)
"His chief reason for believing in autogeny is, that if we do not do so, we must believe in creation and a Creator, which, according to his notions, ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... though he reserves the physiological ground to autogeny. Perhaps in a second edition he will'clarify his views, and give up the confusing ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"The conceptions of autogeny and of independent growth, by which men in the same plane of culture act and think alike, with only the modifications of ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"The conceptions of autogeny and of independent growth, by which men in the same plane of culture act and think alike, ..."

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