Relating to or characterized by the development of new structures or characteristics in organisms during their lifetime that are not inherited from ancestors.
From cenogenesis plus the adjective suffix -ic. A technical term in evolutionary biology developed in the 19th century.
Cenogenetic features are like the evolutionary equivalent of a surprise upgrade—they're characteristics that developed recently enough that your ancestors never had them, so you're breaking new biological ground.
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