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Autogenesis
In biology the word autogenesis has been used to describe two similar concepts:
- Abiogenesis - the origin of life, as used by Aristotle
- Orthogenesis - a discredited evolutionary idea that hypothesised a directed 'teleological' form of evolution.
Autogenesis may also have been used to mean a combination of the two, a purposeful, directed or 'special creation' abiogenesis event, the product of which undergoes orthogenesis.
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