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<p>In the <a href="page.php?w=history_of_biology">history of biology</a>, <b>preformationism</b> (or <b>preformism</b>) is a formerly popular theory that <a href="page.php?w=organism">organism</a>s develop from miniature versions of themselves. Instead of assembly from parts, preformationists believed that the <a href="page.php?w=platonic_forms">form</a> of living things exist, in real terms, prior to their <a href="page.php?w=ontogeny">development</a>. Preformationists suggested that all <a href="page.php?w=organism">organism</a>s were created</p><p>
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