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  1. Biological term coined 1870 by T H Huxley
  2. to express the hypothesis that living
  3. matter always arises out of other similar
  4. forms of living matter. It superseded the
  5. opposite idea of spontaneous generation or
  6. abiogenesis (that is, that living things may
  7. arise out of nonliving matter).
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