Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The origination of living from non-living matter; abiogenesis (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The origination of living matter from non-living. See
abiogenesis .
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- noun The
origination of living matter from non-living;abiogenesis .
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Examples
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Among those who, in one way or another, affirmed such a view of archebiosis were Huxley, Pflüger, Le Dantec, Ver - worn, Leduc, etc.
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968
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But if Pasteur and his followers disposed finally of heterogenesis, this did not really check the career in the modern age of another version of spontaneous generation — that connected with the problem of archebiosis, or the first origins of life on our planet.
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968
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I should like to live to see archebiosis proved true, for it would be a discovery of transcendent importance; or if false I should like to see it disproved, and the facts otherwise explained; but I shall not live to see all this.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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For the distinction between archebiosis and heterogenesis, _see_ Bastian, Chap. VI.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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The result is that I am bewildered and astonished by his statements, but am not convinced; though on the whole it seems to me probable that archebiosis is true.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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His general argument in favour of archebiosis [92] is wonderfully strong; though I cannot think much of some few of his arguments.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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Dr.B. is always comparing archebiosis as well as growth to crystallisation; but on this view a Rotifer or Tardigrade is adapted to its humble conditions of life by a happy accident; and this I cannot believe.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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His general argument in favour of archebiosis [92] is wonderfully strong; though I cannot think much of some few of his arguments.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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The result is that I am bewildered and astonished by his statements, but am not convinced; though on the whole it seems to me probable that archebiosis is true.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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Dr.B. is always comparing archebiosis as well as growth to crystallisation; but on this view a Rotifer or Tardigrade is adapted to its humble conditions of life by a happy accident; and this I cannot believe.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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