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Webster 1913 Edition


Transformism

Trans-form′ism

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Noun.
[F.
transformisme
.]
(Biol.)
The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; – opposed to abiogenesis.
Huxley.

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transformism

transformism

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Noun

transformism (countable and uncountable, plural transformisms)

  1. (biology) the doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter

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