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'Generation' (from the Greek ''γενεά''), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. It can also refer to the act of creating something inanimate such as electrical generation or cryptographic code generation. A generation can also be a stage or degree in a succession of natural descent as a grandfather, a father, and the father's son comprise three generations.
A generation can refer to stages of successive improvement in the development of a technology such as the internal combustion engine, or successive iterations of products with planned obsolescence, such as video game consoles or mobile phones.
A generation can also represent all the people born at about the same time, sometimes called a generational cohort in demographics. Historians and social scientists have identified series of generations in American history, though there is no widespread agreement names and boundaries of 20th Century generations.
In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known evolution.

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References

★ ''Generations'', William Strauss, Neil Howe

★ ''The Fourth Turning'', William Strauss, Neil Howe

See also

★ Generations in American History

★ List of generations

★ The Beat generation

★ The Stolen Generation

★ The Interbellum Generation (1901–1910)

★ The Greatest Generation (1911–1924)

★ The Baby Boomers (1945-1964)

★ Generation Jones (1954–1965)

★ The Baby Busters (1965–1980)

★ Generation X (1965–1983)

★ The MTV Generation (1975–1985)

★ Generation Y (1981–ca.1999)

★ The Internet Generation (1994–2005)

★ Intergenerational Equity

External links

★ Generation Online

★ Generations and Population