preformation
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noun
a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
Preformation in a sentence
Preformation, as even Aristotle spotted, merely postpones the problem, for how did the homunculus get its shape?
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