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In literature, transgressive is often used to depict processes that surpass conventional boundaries, whether in biology or cultural commentary. For instance, the term appears in discussions of natural growth processes where cellular division or reproduction is framed as exceeding ordinary limits ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). It similarly connotes variations or fluctuations that breach expected norms, as illustrated in contexts involving selection pressures or pollen-grain admixtures ([6], [7]). Meanwhile, in a more cultural or aesthetic vein, the descriptor extends to denote lawlessness or nonconformity, enriching literary portrayals of counterculture and rebellious media ([8], [9]).
  1. In the simplest case, the cell-cleavage of the monera, propagation (by simple transverse division) is clearly nothing more than transgressive growth.
    — from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel
  2. It thus effects the nutrition and growth of the living being, and therefore its reproduction, which is merely transgressive growth.
    — from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel
  3. When this limit has been passed, the transgressive growth takes the form of reproduction.
    — from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel
  4. It is obvious all through that transgressive growth is the starting-point in the formation of new individuals.
    — from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel
  5. Reproduction is a mechanical consequence of transgressive growth, analogous to the elective multiplication of crystals.
    — from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel
  6. If then selection does not bring about transgressive variation in a general population, how can selection produce anything new?
    — from A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan
  7. Some transgressive fluctuating variability may occur in both cases through the admixture of pollen-grains.
    — from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
  8. Adj. violating &c. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive.
    — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
  9. Alan knew it, a great shop with a huge selection of cult movies and a brisk trade in zines, transgressive literature, action figures and T-shirts.
    — from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

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