📚 Palingenesis, noun. 🔉 /ˌpalɪnˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Biology • mass noun): The exact reproduction of ancestral characteristics in ontogenesis. ❗️ Examples: 1. In a process the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, in his Essay on Man, called palingenesis, the past is recreated as a living organism in which every separate element is connected. 2. Palingenesis has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance. 3. There was no obvious palingenesis bone shown in. the X-ray images. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic