degeneration Meaning and Definition
1. n. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
2. n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
3. n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Degeneration theory was a widely influential concept in the social and biological sciences in the nineteenth century - it attempted to find explanations for social change in physical or biological systems.
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