epigenesis in a sentence

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1. In his " Theoria Generationis " ( 1759 ), he endeavored to explain the emergence of the organism by the actions of a " vis essentialis ", an organizing, formative force, and declared " All believers in epigenesis are Vitalists . " Carl Reichenbach ( 1788 1869 ) later developed the theory of Odic force, a form of life-energy that permeates living things.