epigenesis noun. [ɛpɪ'dʒɛnɪsɪs] M17.
[from EPI- + -GENESIS.]
Biology (now Hist.). (A theory of) the development of an organism by progressive differentiation of an initially undifferentiated whole (freq. opp. preformation). Also (earlier), formation by successive accretion of parts.

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