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GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 578 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race) , the act of procreation or begetting, hence any one of the various methods by which
plants
 , animals or substances are produced. As applied to the result of procreation, " generation " is used of the offspring of the same parents, taken as one degree in descent from a common ancestor, or, widely, of the
body
  of living persons born at or near the same time; thus the word is also used of the age or period of a generation, usually taken as about thirty years, or three generations to a
century
 . As a
term
  in
biology
  or
physiology
 , generation is synonymous with the Gr. Otoyiveves and the Ger. Zeugung, and may comprehend the whole history of the first origin and continued reproduction of living bodies, whether
plants
  or animals; but it is frequently restricted to the sexual reproduction of animals. The subject may be divided into the following branches, viz.: (I) the first origin of
life
  and living beings, (2) non-sexual or agamic reproduction, and (3) gamic or sexual reproduction. For the first two of these topics see
ABIOGENESIS
 , BIOGENESIS and
BIOLOGY
 ; for the third and more extensive division, including (I) the formation and fecundation of the ovum, and (2) the development of the embryo in different animals, see REPRODUCTION and EMBRYOLOGY.


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