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If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre-existing form, the process would be called one of alternate generation.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre- existing form, the process would be called one of alternate generation.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles