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According to the Oxford English Dictionary: The word is used by W. Harvey, Exercitationes 1651, p. 148, and in the English Anatomical Exercitations 1653, p. 272. It is explained to mean‘partium super-exorientium additamentum’,‘the additament of parts budding one out of another’. It is also worth quoting this adumbration of the definition given there (viz., "The formation of an organic germ as a new product"): theory of epigenesis: the theory that the germ is brought into existence (by successive accretions), and not merely developed, in the process of reproduction. [...] The opposite theory was formerly known as the‘theory of evolution’; to avoid the ambiguity of this name, it is now spoken of chiefly as the‘theory of preformation’, sometimes as that of‘encasement’or‘emboîtement’.
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