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DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION

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Definitions of DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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The theory of the origin of species by the gradual change of lower forms of life through internal agencies, as distinguished from environment.
The theory in embryology which holds that the embryo exists preformed in some way in the ovum.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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