heterogenetic
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This shows that its author believed in the possibility of the "superior organic forms," like the mastodon, megatherium, etc. from the "heterogenetic elements"--those undergoing every conceivable change--as well as the "inferior forms."
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Another is the possibility of a descent by leaps, through a metamorphosis of germs or a heterogenetic generation.
From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.
Heer has introduced into scientific language the term "new-modeling of the species," K�lliker that of a "heterogenetic generation," and Baumg�rtner that of a "transmutation of the types through a metamorphosis of germs."
From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.
But how his "sum-total of external conditions," acting upon dead matter, can "engender" living matter, is one of those "related heterogenetic phenomena" which he does not condescend to explain.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Among them we find also scientists who answer the question in the sense of a new-modeling of the species, of a heterogenetic generation, and of a metamorphosis of germs.
From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.
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