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Supplementation

noun
1.
A quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency).  Synonym: supplement.
2.
The act of supplementing.  Synonyms: subjoining, subjunction.






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... these theories is that of Wilhelm Roux ("Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus", Leipzig, 1881.) of "the struggle of parts within the organism, a supplementation of the theory of mechanical adaptation." He explains the functional autoformation of the purposive structure by a combination of Darwin's principle of selection with Lamarck's idea of transformative heredity, and applies the two ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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