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xenogenesis
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xenogenesis /xeno·gen·e·sis/ (-jen´ĕ-sis)
1. heterogenesis (1).
2. the hypothetical production of offspring unlike either parent.
xen·o·gen·e·sis (zn-jn-ss, zn-)
n.
1. The supposed production of offspring that are markedly different from either parent.
2. See alternation of generations.
xenogenesis
[zen′əjen′əsis]
1 alternation of traits in successive generations; heterogenesis.
2 the theoretic production of offspring that are totally different from both of the parents. xenogenetic, xenogenic, adj.
xenogenesis [zen″o-jen´ĕ-sis]
1. metagenesis.
2. production of offspring unlike either parent.
xenogenesis
1. heterogenesis (1).
2. production of offspring unlike either parent.
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Among their topics are epistemology, cultural negotiation, the black female world of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy, ecology and evolution in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, and political myths and social reality in East German science fiction 1949-89.
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Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy (1987-89) aliens seek to interbreed with the survivors of a nuclear war to remove a conflict between humanity's genetic traits: intelligence and hierarchical thinking.
'The human contradiction': identity and/as essence in Octavia E. ... by Tucker, Jeffrey A. / Yearbook of English Studies
In books such as the Patternist novels, published from 1976 to 1984, and the Xenogenesis trilogy, published from 1987 to 1989 and now collected in the omnibus volume Lilith's Brood, Butler employed the stuff of hard science--biological engineering, interspecies hybrids--to create settings and situations that are both literally and figuratively alien.
The parables of Octavia Butler: a science-fiction writer's rich ... by Sturgis, Amy H. / Reason
 
 
 
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