Epigenesis
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Epigenesis may refer to:
  • Epigenesis (biology)
    Epigenesis (biology)
    In biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings:* the unfolding development in an organism, and in particular the development of a plant or animal from an egg or spore through a sequence of steps in which cells differentiate and organs form;...

    , describes morphogenesis and development of an organism
  • By analogy, a philosophical and theological concept, part of the concept of spiritual evolution
    Spiritual evolution
    Spiritual evolution is the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and/or human culture evolve, extending from the established cosmological pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-established potentials...

  • The Epigenesis, a 2010 album by Melechesh

See also

  • Epigenetics
    Epigenetics
    In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence – hence the name epi- -genetics...

    , changes in gene expression due to mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence
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