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generation
A generation is 'all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.' It can also be described as, 'the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own'. In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. It is also known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences.

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