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    Abiogenesis , n. [Gr. ἀ priv. + βίος life + γένεσις, origin, birth.] (Biol.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
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    I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis.
    Huxley, 1870.

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