exogenesis

English

From exo- +‎ -genesis.

exogenesis (uncountable)

The theory that life on Earth is of extraterrestrial origin.
- 2011, Gerald Benedict, The Maya: 2012: the end of the world, or the dawn of enlightenment?, page 21:
  Panspermia, one possible form of exogenesis, is the notion that the seeds of life are scattered throughout the universe.
- 2012, Ben Woodard, Slime Dynamics:
  The hybridization of the viroid and fungoid (creating a life that transmogrifies and creeps) can be tied to the theory of exogenesis. The theory of exogenesis holds that life has always already existed and that life on earth has come from elsewhere.
External origin.
- 1982, Peter L. Long, The Biology of the Coccidia, page 123:
  In later development, the merozoites assume a peripheral location and grow outward at the surface, with the limiting membrane of the mother meront forming the outer membrane of the merozoite, as in exogenesis.
- 2002, Eurasian Soil Science - Volume 35, page S-116:
  The exogenesis theory forwarded by Targulian reveals the role of boundary in the solid-air and solid-water systems: for their interaction.
- 2012, A. Campos, Spinoza's Revolutions in Natural Law:
  When they exist eternally, their exogenesis is God's necessarily eternal existence; when they exist in action, their exogenesis lies in the durational existence of other individual (already existent in action) things.