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Definition of Kenogenesis
1. Noun. Introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution).
Generic synonyms: Development, Growing, Growth, Maturation, Ontogenesis, Ontogeny
Derivative terms: Cenogenetic
Antonyms: Palingenesis
Definition of Kenogenesis
1. n. Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.
Definition of Kenogenesis
1. Noun. (alternative form of caenogenesis) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Kenogenesis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kenogenesis
Literary usage of Kenogenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"... (bj secondary larva, such as have been introduced by kenogenesis into the
ontogeny of species that formerly developed by the foetal process. ..."
2. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"This distinction between palingenesis or inherited evolution, and kenogenesis or
vitiated evolution, has not, however, yet been sufficiently appreciated by ..."
3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"kenogenesis (Greek) = modified evolution, ... The modifications introduced into
Palingenesis by kenogenesis are ..."
4. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"This distinction between Palingenesis or inherited evolution, and kenogenesis or
vitiated evolution, has not, however, yet been sufficiently appreciated by ..."
5. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"On the other hand, these conclusions were more or less endangered, wherever
kenogenesis, or "vitiated evolution," was introduced by new adaptations. ..."
6. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"This distinction between palingenesis or inherited evolution, and kenogenesis or
vitiated evolution, has not, however, yet been sufficiently appreciated by ..."
7. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"This distinction between palingenesis or inherited evolution, and kenogenesis or
... palingenesis or inherited history, and kenogenesis or vitiated history. ..."
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