abiogenesis ( synonym found)

Definition of abiogenesis:

(n) : the supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis
"I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis -- Huxley, 1870"

Definition of abiogenesis:

(n) : the supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis
"I shall call the ... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis -- Huxley, 1870"

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