Transformism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transformism \Trans*form"ism\, n. [F. transformisme.] (Biol.)
     The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have
     originated by the modification of some other previously
     existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
     --Huxley.
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