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Palingenesy

Definition: A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a
continued existence in different manner or form.

Palingenesy

Definition: That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral
characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development;
original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes,
in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.