Definition of Palingenesis
Pal`in`gen´e`sis
n.
1.
1.
A
new
birth
;
a
re-creation
;
a
regeneration
;
a
continued
existence
in
different
manner
or
form
.
2.
The
passing
over
of
the
soul
of
one
person
or
animal
into
the
body
of
another
person
or
animal
,
at
the
time
of
the
death
of
the
first
;
the
transmigration
of
souls
.
Called
also
metempsychosis
.
3.
(Biol.)
That
form
of
development
of
an
individual
organism
in
which
in
which
ancestral
characteristics
occurring
during
its
evolution
are
conserved
by
heredity
and
reproduced
,
sometimes
transiently
,
in
the
course
of
individual
development
;
original
simple
descent
; -
distinguished
from
cenogenesis
(
kenogenesis
or
coenogenesis
),
in
which
the
mode
of
individual
development
has
been
modified
so
that
the
evolutionary
process
had
become
obscured
.
Sometimes
,
in
Zoology
,
the
term
is
applied
to
the
abrupt
metamorphosis
of
insects
,
crustaceans
,
etc
.
See
also
the
note
under
recapitulation
.
Related Words
caenogenesis
,
cainogenesis
,
cenogenesis
,
development
,
growing
,
growth
,
kainogenesis
,
kenogenesis
,
maturation
,
ontogenesis
,
ontogeny
,
recapitulation
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