[f. Gr. αὐτογενής, -γόνος, self-produced: see prec.] A mode of spontaneous generation; (see quot.).
1875. Schmidt, Desc. & Darw., 320. Haeckel’s hypothesis of Autogony.
1876. trans. Haeckel’s Hist. Creat., I. 339. In spontaneous generation … we must first distinguish two essentially different kinds, viz. autogeny and plasmogeny. By autogeny we understand the origin of a most simple organic individual in an inorganic formative fluid.
