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Definition of Anagenesis
1. Noun. The evolution of a new species by the large scale change in gene frequency so that the new species replaces the old rather than branching to produce an additional species. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anagenesis
1. [n -GENESES]
Medical Definition of Anagenesis
1. 1. Repair of tissue. 2. Regeneration of lost parts. Origin: G. Ana, up, + genesis, production (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anagenesis
Literary usage of Anagenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Fishermen—Merchants in those Days as low as Artisans—Longshoremen—Shippers—
No Strikes, because Interests were Common—Strange Pre- Christian anagenesis, ..."
2. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1904)
"anagenesis. It is customary to distinguish broadly between inorganic and organic
energies, as those which are displayed by non-living and living bodies. ..."
3. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"The general metaphysical idea underlying Wadding- ton's anagenesis argument is
evidently that, from a moral viewpoint, the condition of our planet has been ..."
4. A Monograph of the Ammonites of the "Inferior Oolite Series,": (Stages by Sydney Savory Buckman (1907)
"... of whorl shape—from inflation to compression ; anagenesis of suture-line, ...
with ultimate failure; anagenesis or closing of umbilicus, with, later, ..."
5. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"To each there is a stage of anagenesis and a stage of ... With five characters,
to each of which may be given, say, five stages of anagenesis and five of ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"may be either progressive (anagenesis) or retrogressive ... has preceded anagenesis.
If the forms of non-vital energy represent a result of ..."
7. Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson (1911)
"One of the most notable naturalists of our time has insisted on the opposition
of two orders of phenomena observed in living tissues, anagenesis and ..."
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