An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PALINGENESIES
PALINGENESY
Pal`in*gen"e*sis, Pal`in*gen"e*sy, n. Etym: [Gr. palingénésie. See Genesis.]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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