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‖ protogenes Biol.|prəʊˈtɒdʒɪniːz|
[mod.L. (Haeckel), a. Gr. πρωτογεν-ής first-born, primeval, f. πρωτο- proto- + γένος, γενε-, origin, race, nature, kind, f. stem γεν- to give birth to.]
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1868H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. §55 In the Protogenes of Professor Haeckel, there has been reached a type distinguishable from a fragment of albumen only by its finely-granular character. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. i. (1873) 8 In the lowest grade of the animal kingdom is a creature Protogenes, at once structureless and devoid of any form, as its shape varies like that of Proteus himself. 1884Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 118 All along the line of evolution, from the ‘protogenes’ to the mammoth, there have been marked deviations to the right and the left. |