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n. - A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed.

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  • Its "epigenesis" is shown to be a literary example of the phases of cell division, with discussions of its prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
  • This point established, two hypotheses remain: that of 'pre-existence' and that of 'epigenesis'.
  • "epigenesis", viz., that the development of the embryo is real successive production of visible manifoldness, real construction of new parts, goes back to Aristotle.
  • Nowak has no papers about epigenesis that I could notice.
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