anagenesis

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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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  1. noun A pattern of evolution that results in linear descent with no branching or splitting of the population.

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  • 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 —  Evolution créatrice. English
 

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  1. Greek ἀνά, up, + γένεσις, origin: see genetic.
 

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