epigenesis

Definitions

1. The theory that an organism develops by differentiation from an unstructured egg rather than by simple enlarging of something preformed.
   countable, uncountable
2. Changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Ignored for two millennia, Aristotle, in his book On the Generation of Animals, first proposed the theory of epigenesis in biology, suggesting that development of a plant⟳ or animal from an egg or spore follows a sequence of steps in which the organism changes and the various organs form⟳.”

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