Epigenesis can refer to one of the following:

• In geology, changes in the mineral composition of a rock because of outside influences, e. g. the injection of a vein of ore into existing rock.
• Epigenesis (biology) describes morphogenesis and development of an organism
• Epigenesis (creative intelligences) is the philosophical/theological/esoteric idea that since the mind was given to the human being, it is this original creative impulse, epigenesis, which has been the cause of all our development

See also

• Epigenetics

External links

• Epigenesis and Preformation by Jane Maienschein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (

In Biology, epigenesis has at least two distinct meanings the unfolding development in an organism and in particular the development of a plant Spiritual evolution is the Philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and/or human culture evolve along In Biology, the term epigenetics refers to changes in Gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence

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