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Generation (From the Greek ''γιγνομαι''), 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 or stages of successive improvement in the development of a Technology , such as Computers , Automobile s, or Microprocessor s. A generation can also represent all the people born at about the same time, sometimes called a Generational Cohort in Demographics . Historians hold differing opinions regarding to what extent dividing history into generations is a useful analytical tool or an improper over-generalization. William Strauss and Neil Howe , in their book '' Generations '', list the generations of Anglo-America . Their definition of "generation" is given as a cohort-group, in which are all persons born in a limited span of consecutive years, whose length approximates the span of a phase of life given to be approximately 22 years, and whose boundaries are fixed by Peer Personality . Peer personality generational persona recognized and determined by common age location, common beliefs and behavior, and perceived membership in a common generation. In Biology , the process by which populations of Organisms acquire and pass on novel Trait s from generation to generation is known as the Theory Of Evolution . SEE ALSO
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